OpinionJournal: Rhodes Cook: College Try

OpinionJournal: Rhodes Cook: College Try

California may join Maine and Nebraska by electing its presidential electors by congressional district, rather than winner-take-all statewide. Rhodes Cook looks at how such an approach, applied in every state, would have affected presidential elections going back to 1960. (Nixon would have won in 1960 -- voting by district would have prevented fraud in Chicago from affecting more than the city's own congressional districts -- and the 1976 election would have ended in a 269-269 tie!)