HUFFINGTON POST: …California voters are inclined to support a proposed ballot initiative that would change how the Golden State allocates its electoral votes in presidential campaigns, but they’re not yet sold on the idea, a Field Poll released today showed.
Currently, California employs a winner-take-all system that awards the state’s entire 55 electoral votes to the winner of the state’s popular vote.
Under the proposed measure, which could be on the June 2008 ballot, the presidential election would become, in essence, a congressional district-by-congressional district contest. The winner of the statewide popular vote would receive two electoral votes, but the remaining votes would go to the winner in each of the 53 congressional districts… (more)
EDITOR: On the assumption that CA will go Democrat in the presidential election, it is unlikely that either candidate will spend much time electioneering there except to attend fund raising events. This would change radically if the electrol votes were apportioned by Congressional Districts.
June 2008 ballot?
We could just as easily look at all of the Red states in the South and see this isn’t really a solid bloc of Republican voters either. Mississippi goes Republican and yet about 40% of its vote is solidly Democratic.