Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
by masonic on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:42AM
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California was never "solidly red". Aside from President, it's been mostly blue, as a simple look at the makeup of the state legislature shows (it's been mostly Democrat controlled for over two generations).
Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
by pishpash on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:04PM
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Phase transition is a natural outcome of all-or-nothing elector pledging.
Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:29PM
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> Phase transition is a natural outcome of all-or-nothing elector pledging.
Don't see why it would be. Obviously a flip will flip all of a states electors if it did all or nothing assignment, as most do, but sudden flip from consistent red to consistent blue in Presidential elections isn't a product of that. Might be a product of winner take all elections at other levels (e.g., state house, with the majority flipping reshaping donor alignments in the state and leading major voices to switch sides) but that's not what happened in CA either; the legislature didn't flip from solid Red to solid Blue at a time that would be consistent with it being a driving factor for the Presidential shift.
Suddenly swung in 1992, and has been seen as solid blue since—not really an example of swing states switching as a state rapidly moving from Republican lock to Democratic lock.