I’m sure that made no sense.
What I mean is, is there any site that calculates who would have won the EV if all states split the electoral votes based on popular vote; for example, my state of Massachusetts gave all 13 votes to Kerry, although the popular vote was 62% Kerry, 37% Bush I believe. If Massachusetts had given say 8 votes to Kerry and 5 to Bush, and all of the other states followed the same formula, who would have won?
Probably Bush? I honestly don’t know. Wisdom appreciated.
Karen
First you would have to have the cast vote totals. The do you divide the EV’s proportionally as whole numbers or fractionate one. Then tabulate the whole mess and total the EV’s. Personally I don’t have the time nor the inclination to do so at this point.
The constitution set up the electoral college to avoid the exesses of majority rule, i.e. majority rule based on the popular vote.
Here’s one that’ll do it if you enter numbers by hand.
I don’t know of such a site but it would be interesting.
You’ll need to define how these votes are split up. The two states that presently would do it, but never have, assign one vote per congressional districit, then the two statewide votes to the overall winning.
Splitting up electoral votes if you think the present system is bad, is a really, really bad idea in my opinion. If the Colorado measure had passed, Kerry might have won 3 or more, I don’t know. We still might not know for sure who won, and might not for weeks, as each side would mount legal challenges in the states with very thin margins.
It’s also a bit disengenuous. Such an analysis neglects the fact that if every state split their votes, the candidates would have had completely different strategies for their campaigns, so the popular vote would end up looking quite different, anyway.
It’s not quite on topic, but here’s a lovely map of the US with red/blue purpley mixing to reflect the alignment of each state: Purple Haze..
The accompanying text also gives a link to a county by county map.