Maine & Nebraska are checkered patterned?

Vanity

[Alberta's Child]

Look at red states like Alabama (my home state). The blue areas, like our fairly urban areas, would get EC's for Dims. Same with red state Oklahoma (maybe OKC and Tulsa would get Dim EC's and the rest of the state get Republican EC's).

And Republican candidates would also win some electoral votes in deep blue states like New York and California.

I've seen an analysis of this hypothetical change going back to presidential elections in the 1980s, and the end result was interesting:

1. No presidential election would have had a different result if every state allocated its EVs the way Maine and Nebraska do.

2. In every election, the net change in red vs. blue gains and losses in electoral votes was almost a wash -- and was in single digits at the most. The EVs that the GOP candidate would lose in Texas and Florida (for example) are offset by the ones he gains in California and New York.