• Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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    Texas will very likely gain a blue voting electoral college vote.

    eh? Not sure I’m understanding you. EC votes in Texas are winner-takes-all.

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      You’re right, we’ve got several states, mostly Republican leaning, that are winner take all. But these extra blue seats could potentially allow for an entire state swing in some states as yaroto98 pointed out. If it doesn’t do that, what it will do is piss enough people off because they’re not represented to get the groundswell needed to force changes.

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        23 hours ago

        Only 2 states have proportional EC votes (Maine and Nebraska). So we’d have to get Democratic candidates winning the statewide vote.

        A lot of the people moving to red states from blue are actually conservatives who want to live somewhere with Republican governments. In 2018 Beto won with native Texans but Republican-voting transplants tipped it for Cruz. I think we already have the overall population demographics to flip, if we could just get enough people to actually come out and vote.