Future electoral votes?

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Is it known what the electoral vote designations will be in 2008, and, if not, what are the estimations if there are any and what will they be based on?

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That is what I meant. So our current votes are based on the 2000 census? Makes sense.

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Are there any statistics on how Puerto Rico would vote?

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I calculated all the totals based on trends until 2040, I could post them. Of course, that doesn't include Puerto Rico.

If you could, that would be great. I'd love to see them.

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Is it known what the electoral vote designations will be in 2008, and, if not, what are the estimations if there are any and what will they be based on?

Don't you mean 2012?

Uh, no, I meant 2008. I was unaware of how often electoral votes were changed, which is why I asked.

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Thank you, Akno. You rock.

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By my calculations, by the 2012 election, the following will happen:

- Florida will gain an electoral vote.
- Iowa will lose an electoral vote.
- New York will lose an electoral vote.
- Ohio will lose an electoral vote.
- Texas will gain an electoral vote.
- Utah will gain an electoral vote.

That's using census estimations for 2003...which obviously won't necessarily be 100% accurate.

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2032-2040

It's scary to think that CA could hold almost 15% of the votes in the EC in another 30 years...  I would really love to see the state broken up, for the benefit of the residents (I grew up in rural Nor Cal).  Everything is run by SF and LA; there aren't enough votes in the rest of the state to overrule or even balance out their votes.   [ /whining ]

Thank you! This is my argument for only letting landowners vote in one branch of state legislatures.

That isn't going to fix anything. What about Republicans in California who don't own land?