Released August 9, 2007 A FairVote Innovative Analysis Fact in
the Spotlight: In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote by a small
margin, but lost the Electoral College vote. Gore’s margin of
victory in the popular vote was 0.52%, but Bush’s Electoral
College margin of victory was 0.93%. Had a congressional
district allocation been in place, Bush’s electoral vote margin
of victory would have been 7.06%, eight times an already
distorted result. (from FairVote’s new Wrong-Way Reforms for
Allocating Electoral College Votes) There are Republicans in
California who are tired of being voiceless in presidential
elections. Totally understandable. Likewise, there are Democrats
in North Carolina who think they should have a chance to be
heard as well. Who can blame them? In both states (in fact, in
most states) the Electoral College renders a huge portion of
their electorates utterly mute and irrelevant. To combat this,
some Republicans in California and Democrats in North Carolina
want to see their states’ electoral vote