Ten states and the District of Columbia have joined an interstate compact to give their votes to the winner of the aggregated popular vote totals of all the states. Those states are -- wait for it -- Hawaii, California, Washington (do you see a theme yet?), Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. DC has agreed too.
Those eleven jurisdictions have 165 of the 270 electoral votes needed to elect a president. The compact will go into effect when members of the compact have 270 electoral votes. (No word what would happen if they had 270, and then they lost votes after a subsequent census.)
Notice that New England wasn't pushing this in 1825.




