Republicanos de PA quieren cambiar el reparto del voto electoral

Uno de los riesgos a los que se exponía la Administración Obama con una debacle en las elecciones de medio mandato de 2010 a las legislaturas estatales era que los republicanos utilizasen su nuevo poder para romper algunos de los feudos de Obama en el colegio electoral.

Es lo que proponen hacer en Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

Republicans in charge of the General Assembly (of Pennsylvania) want to change how the state hands out its electoral votes, a move that could reshape the national electoral strategies of future presidents and diminish Pennsylvania's role in choosing the country's leader.

Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi wants to allocate the 20 electoral votes Pennsylvania will have in the next election according to who wins each of 18 congressional districts, plus two more for whoever wins the statewide popular vote, rather than the winner-take-all system the state now uses.

Pileggi said the new formula would better reflect what voters want.

In 2008, for instance, when Pennsylvania had 21 electoral votes, Sen. John McCain won 10 congressional districts to then-Sen. Barack Obama's 9, but Obama won the state by 620,000 votes. Under Pileggi's proposal, Obama would've gotten the two statewide electors, for a net win over McCain of one electoral vote (11-10).

La idea empezó a circular en varios blogs republicanos inmediatamente después de las midterms: How to guarantee a Republican victory in 2012