Heads-Up: 'GOP May Revive Plan To Influence Electoral College' - MSNBC

[markpkessinger]

16. No, it's not off by that much in a single state . . .

. . . But two percentage points is quite significant, and when that kind of redistribution of electoral college percentages happens across multiple swing states (but not in red states), it becomes very significant indeed.

As to your point that "people in PA that voted for John McCain would most likely say that giving him ~3.5 percentage points more than he earned is not as much of an injustice as giving President Obama ~47.6 percentage more than he earned in votes," here's the thing: for a state that adopts this proportional (by congressional district) representation, the power of its majority voice is reduced significantly relative to that of those states that do not adopt it. Again, if ALL states did this, it would be a different matter, but there is no plan anywhere to do this in any but the swing states. And the reason for that is quite obvious. This idea is targeted towards swing states: specifically, swing states in which the majority of the population resides in a minority of districts, and where Democrats tend to be found in those same districts. This unfairly advantages rural districts over urban ones, and Republicans over Democrats, in these states.