This is not a reference to — to assign two electors, winner-takes-all, on the basis of the statewide popular vote and one elector based on the vote in each congressional district. Rather, why not eliminate winner-takes-all completely, and simply allocate each state’s electors proportionally to the popular vote in that state?
If this were nationwide practice, Biden would still have won in 2020, Barack Obama would still have won in 2008 and 2012, and George W Bush would still have won in 2004. But things get more interesting in the two recent presidential elections, in which the Electoral College victor did not win the popular vote.
, Florida would have split its votes 12-12 between Bush and Al Gore, without any court needing to intervene, and assigned a 25th elector to Ralph Nader. Bush would have beaten Gore 263 to 262 in the Electoral College, with 13 electors for Nader.
, Trump and Hillary Clinton would have been tied at 261 electors each, with 14 for Gary Johnson and one each…
