Obama Would Have Received 3/5th Of VA Popular Vote Share Under GOP Plan | Talking Points Memo

A Virginia humorist, Paul Bibeau, stumbled on a statistical oddity embedded in a Republican bill in Virginia that would divide the state’s electoral votes by congressional district. Had the bill been law in 2012, President Obama would have received only four out of thirteen electoral votes despite winning 51 percent of the popular vote.


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