Comments on: Sabato’s Crystal Ball: THE LATEST CALIFORNIA TREND http://themoderatevoice.com/15552/sabatos-crystal-ball-the-latest-california-trend/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 07:24:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Sam http://themoderatevoice.com/15552/sabatos-crystal-ball-the-latest-california-trend/comment-page-1/#comment-101634 Sam Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:20:20 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/15552/sabatos-crystal-ball-the-latest-california-trend/#comment-101634 I agree that the current system is busted, but you have to apply it to all states, not just CA. Doing so to just a single state obviously tips the national election in favor of the party that typically loses the state. Or better yet, for christs sake just have a popular election across the board. Never again would we see a repeat of the circus that marred the 2000 election. I agree that the current system is busted, but you have to apply it to all states, not just CA. Doing so to just a single state obviously tips the national election in favor of the party that typically loses the state. Or better yet, for christs sake just have a popular election across the board. Never again would we see a repeat of the circus that marred the 2000 election.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/15552/sabatos-crystal-ball-the-latest-california-trend/comment-page-1/#comment-101552 DLS Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:10:45 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/15552/sabatos-crystal-ball-the-latest-california-trend/#comment-101552 <blockquote>distribute electoral votes to congressional district winners (one per district, plus two to the statewide winner of the popular vote) instead of the winner-take-all format that nearly every state currently favors</blockquote> This is obviously superior. Why should a state be all-blue or all-red when it's really purple? This is no 100% solution, any more than is proportional representation for House seats, because some states are so small that they don't have enough seats to make this meaningful. But it's obviously better than winner-take-all and should be implemented where it makes sense (say, at least five electoral votes or five House seats apportioned to a state).

distribute electoral votes to congressional district winners (one per district, plus two to the statewide winner of the popular vote) instead of the winner-take-all format that nearly every state currently favors

This is obviously superior. Why should a state be all-blue or all-red when it’s really purple?

This is no 100% solution, any more than is proportional representation for House seats, because some states are so small that they don’t have enough seats to make this meaningful. But it’s obviously better than winner-take-all and should be implemented where it makes sense (say, at least five electoral votes or five House seats apportioned to a state).

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