Take the partisan in-fighting out of this story and discuss the viability of a state splitting it’s electoral votes to match the split of the popular vote.
Only two other states do not have winner-take-all systems of casting electoral college votes. Nebraska and Maine each give two votes to the winner and their remaining electoral college votes are cast according to who won each congressional district.
Sounds like a good idea to me and it might quash the “popular vote” arguments.
PJ O’Rourke interviews Sec. Colon Powell in The Atlantic
File as public bookmark for the time being. O’Rourke has almost everything to do with me being a bloody-gum conservative, back from his days wiping Bill Greider across the pages of the then-relevant “Rolling Stone”. The idea that it was not only OK but even good to be a Republican and a drunk … Beautiful.
From Oswald Jacoby’s book, On Poker, from the 1953 edition which was originally published in 1940:
Although many people differ with me on this point, my own experience has been that a player who attempts to fool his opponents by means of gestures, actions, etc., is much easier to play aginst than one who makes all his bets and plays in the same manner. Accordingly I try to play as much in the manner of a wooden Indian as possible.