New type of EC

[Kaine for Senate '18]

What if we did the EC the way they do delegates in the primary?  The candidate would receive a % of EV in each state equal to their PV%  This would be 2004:

Bush: 279
Kerry: 259

[Хahar 🤔]

I personally like the idea, but voters in Colorado rejected it 4 years ago.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I personally like the idea, but voters in Colorado rejected it 4 years ago.

They rejected a method by CD.  I'm talking about a more proportional system.

[Хahar 🤔]

I personally like the idea, but voters in Colorado rejected it 4 years ago.

They rejected a method by CD.  I'm talking about a more proportional system.

No, they rejected a proportional system.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I like the traditional Electoral College.

[J. J.]

I like the traditional Electoral College.

I think that the current EC has merit, but I'm open to congressional district, plus two for a statewide win.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I like the traditional Electoral College.

I think that the current EC has merit, but I'm open to congressional district, plus two for a statewide win.

I prefer the current model as well, I was just putting this idea forward to see what people think.

[Smid]

I like the traditional Electoral College.

I think that the current EC has merit, but I'm open to congressional district, plus two for a statewide win.

I like this method best, but PR is pretty good also. I think both are preferable to the current system. PR would benefit Democrats in the smaller states, but I think both PR and CD+2 would have benefitted the Republicans in 2004.

[Padfoot]

I'm very much opposed to the CD method if it isn't accompanied simultaneously by nationwide redistricting reform.  I actually favor the CD+2 method in principle but it will never work properly as long as the partisans control redistricting.  That's not to say the proportional method isn't superior to winner take all though.