State legislatures and the Electoral College

[A18]

If every state legislature just had a vote today on who's electors to appoint, who would win what states?

I know Virginia and Nebraska have Republican legislatures.



Anyone have a list of who controls what, state-by-state?

[A18]

I found a few more. Some surprising, some not.

The legislature-by-legislature control is really much different than what you'd expect in some states.

[A18]

For states where one chamber of the legislature is controlled by one party but not the other, I just combined the two. Not sure if this is how they'd normally vote.



If so, the Democrats would win 278-260. I doubt the Dems in the south would be thrilled with Kerry, though.

[KEmperor]

For states where one chamber of the legislature is controlled by one party but not the other, I just combined the two. Not sure if this is how they'd normally vote.



If so, the Democrats would win 278-260. I doubt the Dems in the south would be thrilled with Kerry, though.

I'm confused by what you mean by "combining the two."  I know for example that the NY State Senate is Republican controlled and the Assembly is Democrat controlled.  I'm sure there are similar cases in large number of states.  How exactly did you decide for these cases?

[A18]

Each of them vote as if they were in the same house.

300 Republicans / 20 Democrats

40 Democrats / 10 Republicans

This would be a Republican win.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I can say that for our judicial elections, the House and Senate do vote as if they were a single body in SC, altho the Senate grumbles each time that they sould get 1/2 the voting power instead of just 46/170.  Presumably they would do the same if they elected the electors.  YMMV

[A18]

If we still appointed senators this way, it would be a GOP majority 52-48. There'd be a lot more Zell Millers, too.