[FreedomCalls]

This only hurts the Democrats -- taking away their solid Dem advantage -- and won't make it more likely that anyone will campaign there. In a tight race one might want to try to tip the balance towards gaining all of the votes under the currect winner-takes-all system, but if all one could ever do would be to add one or two based on a percentage (i.e. winning 30 to 25 instead of 28 to 27 -- a gain of only 4 electoral votes), why would anyone waste their time campaigning there?

[deport]

and won't make it more likely that anyone will campaign there.

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That maybe the way it works out, but they are banking on the fact that CA is the most populated state thus the candidates will visit often in an effort to get as many of their votes as possible to add to the rest of the nations popular vote.

[AVNevis]

"This only hurts the Democrats -- taking away their solid Dem advantage -- and won't make it more likely that anyone will campaign there. In a tight race one might want to try to tip the balance towards gaining all of the votes under the current winner-takes-all system, but if all one could ever do would be to add one or two based on a percentage (i.e. winning 30 to 25 instead of 28 to 27 -- a gain of only 4 electoral votes), why would anyone waste their time campaigning there?"

That isn't the proposal on the table here. In a few other states, they award electoral votes based on Congressional districts (1 each) and 2 for the overall winner (to represent the Senate seat).

What we would have here is that whomever wins the popular vote nationwide would win California, so long as states representing a total of 215 other electoral votes (adding to 270 including California's 55) also ratify this (unlikely, at least for now).

[n-tres-ted]

Au contraire. The Dems know very well this would have given California to GWB in 2004. But they already lost that election. What they want to do is get this provision from as many states as possible, say NY, CA, PA, IL, et al. Then you can be sure that every person in NYC, Chicago, LA, SF and every other big city would vote in every election, one way or another, and some would vote twice. Through vote fraud, the Dems could assure their candidate wins the national vote count, thus overriding the electoral college. The electoral college was designed to isolate the effects of such vote fraud in the big cities.

[youthgonewild]

I think McClintock has lost his mind in not endorsing it. This is the best chance a Republican will have of getting the hugest pot of electoral votes in America.