Do you think the “all or nothing” aspect of the Electoral College should be removed, e.g. if a candidate receives 60% of the votes in a given state, he only receives 60% of that state’s electors?
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The choice to be "all or nothing" or whether to use a different method of allocating electoral votes is actually left up to each state. "The Constitution allows each state legislature to designate a method of choosing electors. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have adopted a winner-take-all popular vote rule... The candidate that wins the most votes in the state wins the support of all of that state’s electors. The two other states, Maine and Nebraska, use a tiered system where a single elector is chosen within each Congressional district and two electors are chosen by statewide popular vote." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College
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The distribution of the Electoral College vote is left up to each state. Some states apportion electorates by percentage of votes while others (the vast majority) are an all or nothing. I believe we are the United States of America and that means something. The power of the states has been diminished enough in the past 50 years. I like the all or nothing.
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