The measure would apportion Pennsylvania’s electoral votes among presidential candidates based on their percentage of the popular vote, instead of the current winner-take-all system. Two electoral votes would be awarded to the statewide winner.
I'd actually support this system if it were applied nationwide. Of course, implementing it in Dem States only is pathetic.
This will get defeated, right?
I would not support this idea even if it was in the context of being applied nationwide, because the net effect would be systematic disenfranchisement of urban voters due to "natural packing".
Yes, if it was done nationwide, then Obama would have lost.
I support a system, however, of apportioning electoral votes based on percent won. IE, if it's 10 electoral votes, the winner gets at least 6, and get 7 if they win by at least 3-5%, 8 if they win by at least 8-10%, 9 if they win by at least 11-20%, and 10 if they win by more than 20%, or something to that effect. This would make it so that each side would have to travel to more states to scrape for electoral votes.
