State Bush Gore Nader Total
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Alaska 2 1 0 3
Alabama 5 4 0 9
Arkansas 3 3 0 6
Arizona 4 4 0 8
California 23 29 2 54
Colorado 4 4 0 8
Connecticut 3 5 0 8
District of Columbia 0 3 0 3
Delaware 1 2 0 3
Florida 12 12 1 25
Georgia 7 6 0 13
Hawaii 2 2 0 4
Iowa 3 4 0 7
Idaho 3 1 0 4
Illinois 9 12 1 22
Indiana 7 5 0 12
Kansas 4 2 0 6
Kentucky 5 3 0 8
Louisiana 5 4 0 9
Massachusetts 4 7 1 12
Maryland 4 6 0 10
Maine 2 2 0 4
Michigan 9 9 0 18
Minnesota 5 5 0 10
Missouri 6 5 0 11
Mississippi 4 3 0 7
Montana 2 1 0 3
North Carolina 8 6 0 14
North Dakota 2 1 0 3
Nebraska 3 2 0 5
New Hampshire 2 2 0 4
New Jersey 6 9 0 15
New Mexico 2 3 0 5
Nevada 2 2 0 4
New York 12 20 1 33
Ohio 11 10 0 21
Oklahoma 5 3 0 8
Oregon 3 3 1 7
Pennsylvania 11 12 0 23
Rhode Island 1 3 0 4
South Carolina 5 3 0 8
South Dakota 2 1 0 3
Tennessee 6 5 0 11
Texas 19 12 1 32
Utah 4 1 0 5
Virginia 7 6 0 13
Vermont 1 2 0 3
Washington 5 6 0 11
Wisconsin 5 5 1 11
West Virginia 3 2 0 5
Wyoming 2 1 0 3
Totals 265 264 9 538
I'd be interested to hear people's analysis, the only comment I have to
make is that it would be harder to launch accusations of "throwing one's
vote away," because a single person's vote would no longer have the power
to tilt all 54 of California's electoral votes. It also would be easier
for third parties to gradually gain support, because they could gain
electoral votes each year even without winning a majority of any one state
(all but impossible), and therefore have a real metric of their
success.
In other words, perhaps this wouldn't have a drastic effect on who
wins given any particular set of votes (though it could), but rather on
how people would cast their votes in the first place.
(I'm fairly certain I have the math right, I wrote a perl script to do it for me, but let me know if you find any errors).
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