Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
I wouldn't mind a divvying up the electoral votes based on what percentage a candidate won in a state. So getting 40% of the vote gives you 40% of the electoral votes.

Having a simple majority vote would simply lead to candidates pandering to the largest groupings of people, and ignoring the rest.

CR
Divvying up the electoral vote in that way would have very similar effects as a general popular vote. Same pros and cons.

Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump View Post
They do that with the electoral college, too. States with few votes or votes that come late in the game get altogether ignored. I can count he Democratic pres candidates visits in the last 4 elections on 1 hand, even the the state legislature has been historically democratic.
"Counts to 4 on 1 hand..."