Pennsylvania Considers Apportioning Electoral Votes By District

Allah's pretty psyched.

He thinks that campaigning will be less thorough in Pennsylvania because of this, because, if it's not winner take all, but mostly divided, campaigns may say "eh."

I don't know about that, but I just began thinking about it like two seconds ago.

Question: Generally we sort of assume Pennsylvania's 20 EV's will go to Obama. Because they always go Democratic.

What happens to the electoral math if Pennsylvania is instead something like a 12-8 split?

Isn't that a very, very serious problem for Barack Obama?

Obama would have virtually no chance to capture anything like all 20 EVs. As liberal wags like to say, Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh surrounded by miles and miles of Alabama.

So, he can forget capturing much more than a bare majority of the EVs. Pennsylvania essentially becomes a split.

And now you see the brilliance of Obama's proposed seven bonus states, huh?

posted by Ace at 07:45 PM

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