First, there needs to be an investigation of the zero-vote districts in the inner cities of the country. If a few people can be identified, even secretly, in these districts as voting for Romney, it’s Katy bar the door.
Second, nationwide implementation of the Maine-Nebraska method is relatively easy.
A. Republican controlled state governments in Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin convert to the Maine-Nebraska method. They can do this on their own. These states lean Democratic. We might win them in an election we’d win anyway. But, we lose them in the close elections.
We could do this in Florida, Ohio and Virginia also, even though we would win these states in an even-up election.
With a share of the EVs from these states plus the Romney states, we’d win even if we’re down 2 or 3 points in the popular vote. Maybe even 4 or 5 points down.
The Democrats might scream bloody murder, but there’s nothing they could do about it. They don’t control any Red state where they could do to us what we could do to them. (They do control West Virginia, but we win statewide and all the EVs in any close election.)
To negate the advantage of the Republicans, the Congress could refer a Constitutional Amendment to the states to shift all the states to the Maine-Nebraska method. I actually think that would be fair. Our people could support the Amendment in return for something like repeal of their support of our version of the budget deal (which uses tax reform instead of tax increases to raise revenue).
First allocate the Congressional district EVs. As for the two Senatorial ones, any candidate receiving 40% or more of a state's popular vote receives one EV, any candidate receiving 60% or more of a state's popular vote would receive both EVs, otherwise they would be split between the top two candidates. I think that this system would most closely mimic the popular vote without having to resort to fractional EVs. Candidates would have to campaign in almost all states instead of just in a few "battleground" states.
First allocate the Congressional district EVs. As for the two Senatorial ones, any candidate receiving 40% or more of a state's popular vote receives one EV, any candidate receiving 60% or more of a state's popular vote would receive both EVs, otherwise they would be split between the top two candidates. I think that this system would most closely mimic the popular vote without having to resort to fractional EVs. Candidates would have to campaign in almost all states instead of just in a few "battleground" states.
“We could do this in Florida, Ohio and Virginia also, even though we would win these states in an even-up election.”
My reply is coming in late in the thread, but I’ll post it anyway.
I think you err in your supposition that we can continue to win the above states in “even-up” elections.
All three of the above are reaching “the tipping point”. They are going to flop over from being [former] red states to “leans blue” or perhaps even “solid blue”.
If a candidate as leftist as is Obama could win them TWICE, after four years as disastrous as the last four have been, then a more palatable ‘rat candidate should have them in his/her pocket in the years to come.
If all three of these states had been on the “proportional electoral vote” system prior to the election, our side would have been much more competitive. This doesn’t mean we would have been guaranteed a win in the Electoral College — but the odds would have have been much less in the ‘rats’ favor.
The right needs something to counteract the “National Popular Vote” push by the left. Just saying “the existing system works” will not be enough. Going to a “proportional electoral vote” system would be a good “foil” against NPV by the left.
However, I’m a realist. The odds of making this change are pretty much against us. The left _knows_ the implications of switching to a proportional EV system in blue states — they would lose power, and will do what it takes to preserve winner-take-all in those states.
No matter how we slice it, the future looks less than bright for conservatives on the national scale. I wish this weren’t so, but that’s the way I see things.