Agreed. Interesting how things turned out with Maine at the republican convention.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "I like how this pans out... Maybe will go back to popular vote and > squash these > swing state campaigns and all the stupid news that goes along with it once > and for all..." > > A popular vote would be against the principals of the founding fathers. > > What should happen is every state should mimic Maine and Nebraska: > > Maine and Nebraska both use an alternative method of distributing their > electoral votes, called the Congressional District Method. Currently, these > two states are the only two in the union that diverge from the traditional > winner-take-all method of electoral vote allocation. > > With the district method, a state divides itself into a number of > districts, allocating one of its state-wide electoral votes to each > district. The winner of each district is awarded that districts electoral > vote, and the winner of the state-wide vote is then awarded the states > remaining two electoral votes. > > With this method, a Republican can campaign in NY and CA while a Democrat > can campaign in TX and SC. > > J > > - > > Mrs. Powel:"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" > Benjamin Franklin: "A republic, if you can keep it." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:357629 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
