Awarding Electoral Votes by Congressional District (vanity)

11/21/2012 | self

[ReaganÜberAlles]

I propose that we award Electoral Votes by Congressional District with the winner of each state receiving two additional EVs.

As can be seen at the links below this change would negate the Liberals advantage in CA & NY (where more than Obama's ENTIRE pop vote margin came from in 2012) and would have resulted in McCain beating Obama in 2008 and Romney winning in 2012.

http://www.polidata.org/prcd/

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html

Thoughts?

[Redmen4ever]

The margins in Ohio and Virginia were about the same as the nationwide margin. The margin in Florida less. (We’re not in control of the process in Colorado, but the margin there was similar to the nationwide margin.)

If you’re point is that the country leans blue, well doesn’t it alway when the other side wins. The permanent majorities sometimes are rather permanent (as in the Republican advantage in Presidential from 1860 to 1928, and the Democratic advantage in Congress from 1932 to 1996). But, we’d normally expect political parties to shift around on issues so as to be competitive.

On the other hand, if you’re saying that the U.S. is becoming a welfare nation, so that even the Republicans have to cut deals (e.g., with voters over 55), yes, you may be right, and the country - which is headed down the tubes - may have to crash and burn before it can be re-constructed. The coming hyperinflation may be just the enema this country needs.

To paraphrase de Toqueville, America is no longer great because it is no longer good. Even though the country is no longer among the best countries in the world, it is still worth fighting for. We can still turn this country around. But, ask me whether this country is worth fighting for in four years.

[SoothingDave]

There just aren’t that many “city people” in Pennsylvania, for example to have each CD be 60 % urban.

They can’t run every dictrict through Philly.