Proportioning is nothing more than a softer version of the stupid National Popular Vote plan which would make states irrelevant. This would make state more relevant by making sure just one big urban area of the state didn't decide all elections.
Essentially, it does on the state level what the electoral college system does on the national level.
It is not a new idea. Two states are already doing it.
Before the election they held the opposite opinion; the dems were at first warning about messing with the Electoral College and implying that Bush might scheme to give more weight to the popular vote.
After the election, then the popular vote became the dem ideal.
This is reminiscent of the novel 1984 where a propagandist would change positions in the middle of a speech without even flinching
There is no way in he** that splitting the electoral votes by district amounts to a popular vote. States like CA with most of the NE counties and districts being Red would take the advantage of the population centers away from the rats. This is a good idea. In fact I would go one step further and mandate that the state has to have an electoral college for state elections and go by the same district by district method.
This method is simply an extension of the electoral college idea, but it breaks it down to the local level and is more fair than the winner take all method we use now which gives the states with heavy rat population centers the advantage and takes the vote away from millions of people.