What if electoral votes were awarded proportionally?

[vote for pedro]

What if instead of winner-take-all, candidates won electoral votes in each state based on the percentage of voters that voted for them?

The winner of each state would get two electoral votes, which would be the at-large votes, and the rest is based on proportion.

How would you handle Rhode Island with 4 EV?  The clear victor at 55% has "about half" of the popular vote.  Who gets the 4th EV?

I think it should go to the victor; unless an argument could be made that someone else won one of the two Congressional districts.  Then you would be describing how Nebraska and Maine handle it.

[vote for pedro]

Note how swing states with an even number of CDs only net 2 EVs to the winner.  While swing states that have an odd number of EVs would be more important and net the winner 3 EVs.  Very interesting.

• State:               GOP DEM
• Arizona                 7      4 net 3
• Colorado               3       6 net 3
• Florida                  16    13 net 3
• Maine                     1      3 net 2 (same result IRL)
• Michigan                 9     7 net 2
• Minnesota               4     6 net 2
• Nevada                   2      4 net 2
• New Hampshire       1      3 net 2
• North Carolina          9     6 net 3
• Pennsylvania           11    9 net 2
• Virginia                    8     5 close enough to act like a swing state net 3
• Wisconsin                 6     4 net 2

Other than the odd/even deal it makes all the swing states equally important.