The Electoral system
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:13:14 -0500, "Guyz-N-Flyz"
wrote:
"tim_s" wrote in message i always found the all or
nothing concept odd.....a republican voter
in MA knows it is essentially useless to vote repub in a Preidential
election; MA always goes Dem, so a Repub vote is wasted.....here in
Maine they split electorals by congressional district.....i think
tweaking the electoral college so that it represents the voting
climate of the state may make sense; keep the formula for determining
# of electoral votes the same, but split them based on the popular
vote within that state, i.e. if a candidate receives 52% of the
popular vote in a state, they get 52% of that states electoral
votes....
Or we could all just re-align ourselves. All the reds move to red states,
all the blues to the blue states, and let us unaffiliated types decide the
elections for the good of the nation.
Mark -- just a thought :~^ ) --
Didn't that just happen?
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