A bill to essentially abolish the Electoral College continues to rankle Republicans.

On the N.C. Republican Roundtable group blog, Kat Haney compares a national popular vote to "American Idol," noting that the best candidate doesn't always win:

Since our President will now be 'elected' the same way Idol winners 'win' (popular uninformed vote), you can expect all sorts of good candidates to NOT be elected.

Meantime, Gideon comes up with a worse-case scenario in which four major candidates split the vote in North Carolina, but the state's electoral slate goes to the one who came in last.

THAT candidate would get ALL of North Carolina's electoral votes no matter how the people of North Carolina feel about that candidate ... All thanks to Sen. Dan Clodfelter.

The bill has passed the Senate and is in a House committee.