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To: Alas Babylon!

Proportional allocation via Congressional district is how it was originally in most states. I believe the major parties went to winner-take-all to get rid of the smaller parties. If these states return to proportional allocation, Republicans might start winning those states, but there might also be third-party candidates stealing away Congressional districts.


36 posted on 01/31/2013 2:15:11 PM PST by Galatians513 (this space available for catchy tagline)
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To: Galatians513
Proportional allocation via Congressional district is how it was originally in most states.

Not at all. Winner-take-all has always been the standard system.

37 posted on 01/31/2013 2:25:47 PM PST by fractionated
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To: Galatians513

I want conservatives to win, not necessarily Republicans. And I certainly want democrat/socialists to lose!

The thing is, right now, the winner takes all means the democrats have a lock on states with huge urban masses that only vote lockstep with the plantation owners, er, democrats.

So perhaps proportional allocation is a more balanced system. I live in a rural area, and while Alabama is mostly conservative (thank God!), I’d be completely ignored if we had a Afro/Leftist-megacity (Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Milwaukee, etc) like other states.


46 posted on 02/01/2013 3:46:35 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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