So your map plus CO, FL and WI puts Trump at 319. That actually seems doable.
Question to all FReepers: Would it be better for all states to do apportioned electoral votes instead of winner-take-all? California would probably look more like 35 blue and 20 red. New York would probably be much more evenly divided since the majority of the state goes red while the huge population of NYC goes blue.
I’d like to see us assign one electoral college vote per Congressional district.
That’s’ majority vote. Had we had that it would have been Clinton/Gore/Obama 25 years of (u name it)
Considering how we do much better in the House than in the Senate, and worse still in the Presidency, YES, it would be better to apportion the vote. The more representative a body truly is of the people, the better we do.
Keep in mind this would change the whole nature of campaigning and spending money. You can’t just assume a past election would’ve turned out slightly different.
Never, winner take all gives more power to the smaller states. Apportioning is a slippery slope to making the election straight voting, which gives it to CA and NY...