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Originally posted by yatzr
seems like quite a few of the barely bush's have either become weak bush or weak kerry (that's quite the jump skipping barely kerry). The rest is still the same though.
offtopic a little: Why do ALL of the electoral votes from a state have to go one way or the other? If a state is split pretty good, why can't the electoral votes get split? Wouldn't this give a better representation of the overall vote? Just curious, and I'm too lazy to look it up, so I thought I'd do it the conveniant way  .
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Very much on topic, imo... Basically, it is up to state law how they individually divide their electors. Two states do this, Nebraska and Maine. The total vote winner in the state gets 2 electoral votes automatically, and the rest are divided by the winner of each congressional district.
If every state did this, then, using 2000 as an example, neither Gore or Bush would have reached 270 electoral votes (Nader would have siphoned some off), and the election would have been sent to the House of Representatives, with each state delegation casting one vote. With Republicans having a majority of state delegations, the election would have been won by Bush. This isn't just constitutional theory, either, it happened twice back in the early 1800's.