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What If All States Assigned Electors Proportionally? I pulled numbers from here, and recalculated the electoral college results assuming that all states apportioned electors according to the popular vote within the state. I made the simplifying assumption that no third party candidate pulled enough votes to have gotten an elector (which I'm not certain is true, because in some states Nader plus "Others" did in fact have enough to get an elector between them, but I didn't attempt to break it down further). | | | | | | | Alabama | | | | Alaska | | | | Arizona | | | | Arkansas | | | | California | | | | Colorado | | | | Connecticut | | | | Delaware | | | | Dist. of Columbia | | | | Florida | | | | Georgia | | | | Hawaii | | | | Idaho | | | | Illinois | | | | Indiana | | | | Iowa | | | | Kansas | | | | Kentucky | | | | Louisiana | | | | Maine | | | | Maryland | | | | Massachusetts | | | | Michigan | | | | Minnesota | | | | Mississippi | | | | Missouri | | | | Montana | | | | Nebraska | | | | Nevada | | | | New Hampshire | | | | New Jersey | | | | New Mexico | | | | New York | | | | North Carolina | | | | North Dakota | | | | Ohio | | | | Oklahoma | | | | Oregon | | | | Pennsylvania | | | | Rhode Island | | | | South Carolina | | | | South Dakota | | | | Tennessee | | | | Texas | | | | Utah | | | | Vermont | | | | Virginia | | | | Washington | | | | West Virginia | | | | Wisconsin | | | | Wyoming | | | | | | | So, it makes the electoral vote race a little closer, but it doesn't change the result. I tried to re-do the graphic from my previous post to reflect this distribution, but my graphic skills and my patience both fell short.
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