[EM] electoral college/Serious thoughts

[Curt Siffert]

Gerrymandering makes this a bad idea.  While Gore won the popular vote 
in 2000, Republicans won the house 239-196.  Obviously that wouldn't 
track exactly, because voting for president isn't the same as voting 
for a rep, but it shows that the GOP has a big gerrymandering advantage 
- there wasn't *that* much cross-ticket voting.  If a Dem district is 
won 90-10 and two GOP districts are won 55-45, then the GOP wins the EV 
race 2-1.  The 2000 abomination wouldn't have happened in this case, 
because Bush would have won by a landslide.

It's probably possible to confirm that by going back through 2000 
records to look at presidential vote totals by congressional districts.

Curt

On Apr 30, 2004, at 1:13 PM, Paul Kislanko wrote:

> Two states already determine their EC electors based upon
> proportionality in the sense that each congressional district selects
> one elector and two are selected based upon statewide popular vote.
> agreed to when they became a candidate.