Getting all 50 (or 57, per Dear Leader) states to agree would be a mighty task!
In addition to bolstering the Republican electoral count, the new electoral vote award method would help to more closely align Presidential and Congressional campaigns and political loyalties. In effect, there would be a little less political deadlock in DC because Presidents would be more likely to carry Congress and have political supporters there when elected.
Pennsylvania was considering doing this some years back. It would have meant that the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh regions going democrat and the rest of PA going republican.
This alternative deserves consideration. Of course Democrats will not like it if the Republicans get more EVs.
I’d like each county to get one vote for the EC.
All of those very red maps of the USA with much smaller blue islands on each coast and around the Great Lakes are an indication that, if counted by county, we would never have a Democrat president.
That has happened. The Feds have overthrown the United States. They have not, though, told us who hired them to do so.
I didn’t hear the Democrats complaining that much about the electoral college when Clinton and Obama were winning their two terms. Elections are only a problem when they lose.
No, they don’t. Don’t mess with the EC. The founders knew what they were doing. They got it right the first time.
This is why the Democrats are pushing the national popular vote movement where each state promises to allocate its EVs to the national winner. With that, ballot boxes "found" in car trunks in Minneapolis on Wednesday or Thursday could flip Ohio's EVs.
LOL at this naive, Pollyanna-ish approach.
If a plan to award EVs universally by congressional district is ever adopted, the very next thing that will happen is that Democrats will hyper-gerrymander every state they can get their hands on, while getting compliant judges to overrule GOP-friendly plans in places like Florida and Texas (which are still GOP — for now).
For those who don’t pay attention to redistricting, the Democrats do this ALREADY, as best they can. If the White House is also at stake because of redistricting, they will shift into overdrive with their gerrymandering and court-ordered destruction of anything favoring Republicans.
Yes, this idea is way better than any national popular vote garbage. And it may sound better than what we have now. But there is no game which the Democrats can’t rig in their favor while Charlie Brown (Republicans) watches Lucy (Democrats) pull the football away again.
There’s no reason to make it easier for them to do that.
Maine has RCV.
Nuff said.
One-Party Democrat Nation = Bogus Ballots
We’ve seen how that turns out in 2020
Where would the Republican party get the needed representation without the Electoral College? Do we want a one party system? Already seen how those work & there is probably not enough room left on this planet to start over again.
Congress representatives win by Congressional districts but it was never considered appropriate that Presidents be elected by Congressional districts; Main and Nebraska have it wrong and their method should be undone and others not follow it.