[Lurking Libertarian]

I would be satisfied to see electoral votes handed out according to congressional district wins.

Has anyone done an analysis of whether that would have affected the result this time?

[Kolath]

not in 2012, but would like to see if any red legislatures (in a blue state) would have the guts to do it.

Penn???

[Vigilanteman]

You can do a simple analysis as follows:

State winners:
RATS 26 states x 2 =52 + 3 from DC = 55
GOP: 24 states x 2 = 48

Add in the congressional districts won or leading:
RATS 201 districts + 52 from the state wins + DC = 256 electoral votes
GOP 233 districts + 48 from the state wins = 281 electoral votes.

Of course, the above does not take into account congressional districts which vote for congressmen and presidents of opposite parties. But it does serve as a reasonable guideline of what would happen on the national level if every state adopted the district system.