Posted on 04/03/2024 2:09:18 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Former President Donald Trump and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen are calling on the state’s Legislature to change the way Nebraska doles out its Electoral College votes, a move that would almost certainly benefit Trump in his 2024 presidential bid.
While most states dole out all their Electoral College votes to the statewide winner of the presidential vote, Nebraska and Maine give out one electoral vote to the candidate who wins each congressional district.
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We should be pushing for all states to do what Nebraska and Maine do. I’m pretty sure the only democrats we would have had in the past 43 years would have been both Clinton terms and Obama in 2008, Romney would have won in 2012.
Is there an electoral map by congressional district?
All states should do winner-take-all. It’s clear that way.
Disagree- thats why the GOP are at a disadvantage. Electoral votes should be handed out in the same percentages as the general election in that state. The upside for a Republican candidate in craphole blue states like NY, Kalifornia, Illinois, etc is greater than the downside in Texas and/or Florida
Look at the House of Representatives. The difference is not as much as you think.
Trump won with 46% of the vote in 2016. Hillary had 48%. Not sure if it would work out in his advantage if the votes were split according to district.
in a super crazy close election this one change could be the difference
Going back to 1992....
Of the 428 districts in states which HAVE districts (7 do not, plus DC), the elections of 2000, 2004, 2012 and 2016 would have been won by the GOP if the electoral votes had been split by district and not winner-taker-all.
The GOP would still have lost in 1992, 1996, 2008 and 2020.
As one example, here is a listing of results by district for 2020. You can get any other year too (back to 1960):
2020 presidential election results by congressional district
Sorry folks, but electoral votes by congressional district would have wiped out obama and biden. 2) its actually more constitutional in spirit than winner take all. It eliminates big city control over every state, effectively eliminates vote fraud for a generation. And when the republicans controlled the rust belt, TWICE, in the past 30 years it could have been done. But we dont have a republican party. We have a retardican party.
Oregon is winner take all. The state can be Dems 51%, Rep. 49%. Oregon is blue in metro areas and red as can be in most of state. The red voter NEVER GETS COUNTED. It would be much fairer (lib term) if my vote got counted.
Maybe assigning electoral votes by congressional district isn't such a good idea, after all. The mere thought of that made me throw up in my mouth a bit. Yes, even knowing what the alternative was.
Regardless, that is the most logical way to assign electoral votes. There was no good outcome possible in 2012.
At this point in time, in Nebraska, we should be pushing for winner take all.
Some of the posts on this thread are unbelievable.
To win the next election, in Nebraska, we should be pushing winner take all.
I propose the following as a constitutional amendment.
Each congressional district shall award it’s electoral vote to the candidate that has a majority of 51% of the votes cast. If there is no qualifying candidate, a run-off election shall be held 45 days after the election with only the top two candidates by votes cast being accepted as candidates for the run-off election. If the run-off election does not result in one candidate obtaining 51%, The Legislature shall meet in unicameral session and decide which of the candidates shall be awarded the electorial vote.
One of the State electoral votes shall be awarded to the candidate that receives the most congressional districts, The second state electoral vote shall be awarded to the candidate that receives the most votes in the election.
Unbelievable. If the Republicans controlled a state, it would be retarded for them not to retain winner take all.
As one example, here is a listing of results by district for 2020. You can get any other year too (back to 1960):
2020 presidential election results by congressional district
This appears to be missing 7 congressional districts as the totals do not add up to 435. Even if these missing congressional district went for Trump, he would have lost 272 to 265.
But, the election would have played out a lot differently with different math in play.
Looking at the cong. list, it is missing the seven states with only one congressperson.
Add those, the total would be 275 to 263.
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