Michael Kosta's satirical Daily Show segment has him investigate the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement by which states award their electoral votes to the national popular-vote winner once enough join — 17 states plus DC have passed it, totaling 209 electoral votes. With John King explaining the electoral college from his magic wall, Kosta travels to battleground Michigan to push the bill, which sponsor Carrie Rheingans expects a vote on by year's end, but lawmakers never take it up.