PA GOP is considering changing their presidential elector rules - no longer winner-take-all, they would be awarded by congressional district instead.

McCain lost the popular vote in PA in 2008, but won narrowly more congressional districts in the state. The districts Obama won, the cities, he won by a larger margin.

http://www.boomantri...1/9/14/10426/3721

Convenient, eh?

The only way this makes sense is if districts are drawn by a non-partisan process. Even then, if electors for the Electoral College are chosen by the state as a whole, there's a strong democratic argument to be made that the total popular vote in the state should determine the outcome.

Games like this are a good argument for the National Popular Vote. I've felt for a long time that we are the United States, not simply America, so the states should continue to have a role in choosing our leaders. However, the presidency is different. We can still have a legislature chosen by the states, while having the popularly chosen national leader chosen by the nation as a whole. After all, our federal courts are divided into districts, not divvied up among the states individually...

Ed Rendell was just on Rachel's show, saying he thought there was a good chance it wouldn't pass. Even so, games like this aren't going to go away...

Cheers,
Scott.