As it stands right now, the Democrats are getting pretty good majorities in the biggest states, and while the Republicans are winning the flyover states, they're not winning them by big margins...I don't think it would change the results that much.

All of the states McCain won would have their electoral votes divided almost evenly between the Dems and Reps (more like 55-45 at best, 52-48 in most, 50.5 to 49.5 in many), and the Dems would still take the majority in the bigger states, all of which have far more people and electoral votes.

So long as the voting is population based (whether it be proportional or 100% electoral), the bigger population areas are going to carry the day, and they are preponderantly Democratic voters.

The fact of the matter is that there are more Democratic voters than Republican voters right now...no matter how you try to gerrymand or carve it up, they've got more votes...period.

If I were a Republican I'd worry more about winning elections by putting up good candidates who have virtually nothing to do with how Republican politics has been run the past 20 years...put up some actual conservatives and talk about what you have to offer, rather than put up fiscally irresponsible anti-civil rights folks who are far more worried about someone having an abortion or cornholing another dude than they are with actually moving our country forward.

In the long run policy will always trump politics...we just went through a period of Rovian politics trumping any meaningful policy, and look where that got us...if the Repubs are to start winning again they need a wholesale change in policy, one that is not tied to the fundie whackjob base, and one that returns to taking care of our money, and making sure business and banks do that, too.

Fish on...

Todd