In 2016, Hillary won the national popular vote by 2,868,686 votes (a little more than Miami-Dade County, FL), of which Oregon contributed a surplus for her of 219,703 (roughly Jackson County, OR). If Donald had picked up 2,648,983 votes in the rest of the country (almost exactly the population of Dallas County, Texas, and a little over half of the voters that Libertarian Gary Johnson siphoned off), Oregon would have, under this law, ignored its own popular vote total, and would have cast its electoral votes for Trump. As much as a plurality of Oregonians claim to hate Trump, and a not insignificant fraction of which protested his election in the streets, imagine how those protests would have been amplified if Oregon had further legitimized his election via its electoral votes.
The Electoral College is working exactly the way the Founding Fathers intended. At the time, they didn’t want businessmen in New York and Boston, or landed gentry in Virginia, having the power to overrule 10 other “colonies.”
Your vote will now be determined by the simple unification of Southern California, Southern Arizona, New York City, Houston, Seattle, and Miami, regardless of how the rest of the country, let alone Oregon votes. Just as it would take virtually the entire rest of Oregon to overrule the Portland Metro area. All bills like this do is create paper Electoral landslides. It is the voting equivalent of “I dunno, wherever you want to eat.” You may love it when you're in the majority, but what if someone you don't agree with is in power? (Hint: Google "Current US President")
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
