Blazing Saddles
Pursuit Driver
Most of us have heard of the Electoral College and fewer of us actually understand it. Without getting into that whole segment of discussion, I was thinking this morning how our political landscape would look if the presidential race awarded the EC votes proportionally instead of winner take all. (Exceptions are Maine and Nebraska) My thoughts were if each candidate was given the "congressional district" vote for each victory, then the people's vote would be represented better. States like California wouldn't be an automatic win for the left and Texas wouldn't be a take all for the right. Millions of people in both examples basically have their vote nullified by this process. Perhaps, this can be something that the people should start voicing their opinions on.
http://www.occasionalplanet.org/2012/11/16/what-if-electoral-votes-were-awarded-proportionally/
http://www.occasionalplanet.org/2012/11/16/what-if-electoral-votes-were-awarded-proportionally/