Fascinating. The GOP will say that it makes sense to award electoral votes proportionally in states like MI, PA and WI, but not in states like TX. Personally, I would be fine with proportional voting nationally, although it ought to be the best proportional voting of all--a national popular vote, not by Congressional districts where gerrymandering would give the party that draws the lines extra power. But of course the Rs, with their usual crazed way, only want what is good for Rs, however unfair and generally stupid it may be.
GOP Plans Attempt to Change Electoral Vote System
"Republicans alarmed at the apparent challenges they face in winning the White House are preparing an all-out assault on the Electoral College system in critical states, an initiative that would significantly ease the party's path to the Oval Office," National Journal reports.
"Senior Republicans say they will try to leverage their party's majorities in Democratic-leaning states in an effort to end the winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes. Instead, bills that will be introduced in several Democratic states would award electoral votes on a proportional basis."
"Already, two states -- Maine and Nebraska -- award an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district... But if more reliably blue states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were to award their electoral votes proportionally, Republicans would be able to eat into what has become a deep Democratic advantage." |
