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Question: Whould you support Popular Vote elections for the US President?
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excelsus
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« on: February 10, 2014, 04:14:28 AM »

Perhaps, each state has 2 at-large EVs (for its two senators) and then the other EVs are awarded to the winners of congressional districts. For example. The state of Oregon has 7 electoral votes. Obama wins the popular vote in Oregon therefore he gets 2 votes. But Romney wins district 3,4,5 and Obama takes districts 1 & 2. End result, Obama gets 4 EVs and Romney 3 EVs. This works well considering that one candidate takes the state at just around 51 percent and the other at 47.

Counterexample:
Obama did win Virginia 51:47; thus, he'd receive 2 electors at-large.
However: Obama only won 4 districts while Romney won 7.
Eventually, Romney would have received 7 electors and Obama 6, even though Obama won the popular vote in Virginia.
Would that be fair?
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