I’m not certain but if applied during the last few national elections, there would be no such entity as Free Republic as the Democrats/Liberals are clearly the adversaries of true free speech.
Gore would be the Prez, and we’d have a boatload of more international problems.
No, actually if all states had used the Maine/Nebraska system of allocating electors, Bush would have won both the 2000 and 2004 elections with an even larger margin in the EC:
cf. http://www.martin.uky.edu/~web/programs/mpa/Capstones_2005/Rinehart.pdf
(It’s a student paper that ran the numbers for both the Maine/Nebraska system and a system in which each state’s EC votes are divided proportionally according to the vote within the state, which system would also have given Bush a more comfortable margin of victory.)
The winner-take-all system is actually a nearly pessimal system for implementing the Founders intent that the EC provide more weight to rural America in the selection of a President, and the heavy weighting it gives to urban voters in urban states favors the left.