It could be that Romney loses but wins the popular vote, said Randall Adkins, chairman of the political science department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I'm not a proponent of a national popular vote, but I'm not opposed to reforming the Electoral College.
Analysts shouldn't forget that the general election is more than a year-and-a-half out plenty of time for the issue to fade from voters' memories, said Randall Adkins, a political science professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.