Electoral college bypass bad idea

Why do I feel this is a power grab or plan to kill off political interest that comes to Iowa? http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090211/NEWS/90211024/-1/archive

If we would join in a pact with other states on giving our electoral college votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote. Why would the candidates even want to come to Iowa like they do now for the caucus and campaign season? They would be here alot less than they are now. As all they would have to do is get the popular vote by hitting the largest cities in the USA and if we set ours to go to the person with most votes it wouldnt matter who wins Iowa, basically making our vote worthless in the state. I would be upset if the state votes went for a republican candidate and the electoral college vote went to the other person cause he won by 400,000 votes. Its amazing that I see Mike Gronstal's name mentioned in the article.I know its not good when you see his name floating around a bill.

I dont know about alot of people its kind of neat to see all the candidates come to Iowa and campaign it brought alot of money into the states economy at the end of 2007.I got to shake the hand of alot of the candidates.Something I wouldnt get to do if our leaders decide to join this pact.

I would sure think if this plan gets pushed through we would basically kill the caucus why would they want to spend tons of money on a state that has 3 million people when you can be hitting largest cities with more population. They would be hitting the largest cities to get the bang for the buck as they would have Iowa in the bag no matter how we voted if we change the law all they would need to do is carry enough of the largest cities to build up popular vote and Iowa's electoral votes would automatically go to the winner. So please morons leave stuff alone it wasnt broken the way it was. The forefathers of our country wasnt ole country boys and hicks they was pretty smart for their time.