Okay, I didn't want to have to be the person to write this here because my hands are really hurting and I wanted to save them for class, but since nobody else has posted this yet I might as well should.
from TPM
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Gov. Tom Corbett and state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi are proposing that the state divide up its Electoral College votes according to which candidates carried each Congressional district, plus two votes for the statewide winner. The system is used by Maine — which, despite the system, has never actually split its four electoral votes — and by Nebraska, which gave one of its five votes to Barack Obama in 2008.
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Had this proposed system been in place in 2008, when Obama won the state by a ten-point margin, he in fact would have only taken 11 out of the state’s 21 electoral votes at the time — due to a combination of past Republican-led redistricting efforts to maximize their district strength, and Obama’s votes being especially concentrated within urban areas.
This is one of the biggest attempts yet by the Repubs to try and get rid of any chance of Dems winning the Whitehouse ever again. Since Pennsylvania went to the Dems since 1992, they want to make it so even though somebody wins the popular vote, they would have to win every district to get 21 electoral votes. I'm imploring people to get fired up about this because don't think that other swing states won't start to follow suit.