Not quite. The winner of each electoral district gets one vote; the winner of the state as a whole gets two more. The EV's are not proportional. If the districts are 51%/49% and 51%/49%, the candidate who got 51% of the vote will get all four Electoral votes. If the districts are 49%/51% and 100%/0%, the winning candidate will only get three of the four EV's despite having 74% of the vote.
I'm not sure whether there would be any theoretical possibility of a 2-2 EV split; the only ways I can think of that that would occur would be (1) some or all parts of the vote resulting in ties, depending upon the tie-breaker rules in effect, or (2) oddities with certification and recounts (so that a candidate is certified as winning a district before a recount, which is conducted for the state as a whole, indicates he did not).
That’s correct......it’s possible for a candidate to get all 4 votes, or split them 3 to 1 in Maine.
A 2 - 2 split is not possible. The winner of the 1st congressional district gets 1 electoral vote; the winner of the 2nd congressional district gets 1 electoral vote, and the candidate who wins the state’s overall popular vote gets 2 electoral votes.
If Obama wins the 1st congressional district in southern Maine, which is more liberal, and the overall statewide popular vote, he would receive 3 electoral votes. If McCain can carry the 2nd congressional district only, he would receive 1 electoral vote.
McCain hopes to carry the entire state (in the popular vote) by getting a ton of votes in northern Maine. I erred in my previous post by stating that McCain would win all 4 electoral votes in this scenario; McCain would win 3 electoral votes if he wins the 2nd congressional district and overall statewide popular vote, because the 1st congressional district is probably going to go for Obama, which would give the dem 1 electoral vote in this scenario.