Romney wins, 234-201

Quote: AZDuffman

About the same as a roulette ball landing on black, red, or green.

LOL I've seen a few roulette balls land on the floor :+).

Quote: AcesAndEights

It is an interesting concept, and one notes that the constitution leaves it up to each individual state to decide how to apportion its electoral votes. Maine and Nebraska already follow this process, for example.

If it isn't obvious, there is no requirement that the states assume a winner take all method. Basically, the constitution is mum on the issue.

Historically, states have seen it as a way to increase their pull in the national election. The federal government is not likely to change the constitution on essentially the issue that allowed the states to form a republic in the first place.

As the two largest states, California and Texas should make a pact to both adopt this method. Since the odd districts from either state will likely almost cancel out one another, it is very unlikely to determine the presidential election. With populations in 2012 estimated at 38m and 26m such a decision would immediately engage almost 25% of the country's population much more into the presidential election. Instead we are sidelining this massive group.

I think people need to see it in action, and then they should be permitted to vote on it within their own state.

I did my best to get some more info and this is what I have so far for how many votes each Congressional District in each state voted. I got data from dailykos.com which is missing all of New Jersey, and New York's 2-5.

State	Obama	Romney
AK	0	1
AL	1	6
AR	0	4
AZ	3	6
CA	41	12
CO	4	3
CT	5	0
DE	1	0
FL	11	16
GA	4	10
HI	2	0
IA	3	1
ID	0	2
IL	12	6
IN	2	7
KS	0	4
KY	1	5
LA	1	5
MA	9	0
MD	7	1
ME	2	0
MI	5	9
MN	6	2
MO	2	6
MS	1	3
MT	0	1
NC	3	10
ND	0	1
NE	0	3
NH	2	0
NJ	0	0
NM	2	1
NV	3	1
NY	20	3
OH	4	12
OK	0	5
OR	4	1
PA	5	13
RI	2	0
SC	1	6
SD	0	1
TN	2	7
TX	11	25
UT	0	4
VA	4	7
VT	1	0
WA	7	3
WI	3	5
WV	0	3
WY	0	1

Quote: Wizard

Of the eight votes, what are the odds every Democrat voted to keep things the same and every Republican voted to allocate electoral votes by congressional district?

I voted for Popular Vote.

Quote: Wizard

Of the eight votes, what are the odds every Democrat voted to keep things the same and every Republican voted to allocate electoral votes by congressional district?

It seems to me that Britain and France have a very large percentage of their respective populations in a single urban area.

Greater London: United Kingdom population 13,709,000 out of 62,641,000
Paris metropolitan area: France population 11,175,000 out of 65,436,552

I wonder if there is such an obvious political war between the urban and the rural/suburban people as in the USA?