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If not for gerrymandering I would consider this the ideal solution. Joel Send a noteboard - 05/11/2012 09:26:01 PM
Smaller states would still matter because they are winner takes all, but larger states would become more interesting, because all of a sudden Texas isn't just Republic, nor California or New York just Democrat. Florida would probably be less important because it's so evenly split, and Ohio would fade slightly. In other words, it would even out campaigns and force them to be national, without the terrifying thought of a nationwide recount or further erosion of the principle of a two-tiered (Federal) system of government.

That would make even the smaller states more competitive and certainly would make individual votes count more within all 50 states.

although i'd have to wonder how convoluted polling would become if they have to do it by congressional district instead of state-wide....

*shrugs* About as convoluted as polling House races, and the pollsters seem to manage. People might even cast votes based on whom they WANT rather than to ride the presumed winners bandwagon. Imagine what it would do to turnout if Republicans in CA, NY and IL, and Democrats in TX, did not collapse in paroxysms of laughter when people told them "every vote counts."
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