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To: RockinRight
What I mean is simply to allocate a state’s EV by Congressional district, then award the 2 Senate votes to the state as a whole.

If a state decides to do that, they are perfectly free to do so. Nebraska and Maine select their electors that way now.

96 posted on 06/25/2011 8:57:59 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Bob

The congressional district method of awarding electoral votes (currently used in Maine and Nebraska) would not help make every vote matter. In NC, for example, there are only 4 of the 13 congressional districts that would be close enough to get any attention from presidential candidates. In California, the presidential race is competitive in only 3 of the state’s 53 districts. A smaller fraction of the country’s population lives in competitive congressional districts (about 12%) than in the current battleground states (about 30%) that now get overwhelming attention, while two-thirds of the states are ignored Also, a second-place candidate could still win the White House without winning the national popular vote.


97 posted on 06/25/2011 10:11:51 AM PDT by mvymvy
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