[readthenotes1]

The current compact only kicks in is the electoral college vote and the popular vote differ.

That is quite a bit different than the popular vote as you can see this year when Trump would have basically run the board of electoral college votes without that caveat.

[InitialLastName]

Either way, the person who wins the popular vote wins the election; what difference does it make how many electoral college votes they get (if the electoral votes are determined by a rule like that).

[starik36]

Exactly, they called it something else in order to obfuscate the issue. Call it what it is.