cyrano | (no subject)

After my friend's Red State/Blue State themed post this morning, I went looking for some information. And I was shocked and surprised to find out that California was only a bastion of hedonism and elitist Volvo driving communism since I got here. For twenty years before Clinton, the state voted Republican in every single presidential election. (Possibly longer.) What I didn't find out, though, was the breakdown of California voting in those elections, except for 2004 where the state went 54/44 for the democratic candidate.
Normally this would be my rant about the electoral college and how California can be completely ignored in the election, until you need some money. For either side. Third party candidates can safely shave ten percent of the vote because California is still 'safe'.
But I'm too tired for a rant.

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You have to crunch the numbers yourself to get percentages, but the Clerk of the House has voting records for every state in every national election going back to 1920.

Is it really the Electoral College you object to, or California's (and most other states') winner-take-all distribution of the electors?

Edited 2008-10-20 00:47 (UTC)

Mostly, it's the winner take all distribution. Which is why I supported the movement for the state to put its electors behind the winner of the popular vote nationwide.