Category Archives: North Carolina


Another view of North Carolina delegate allocation

August 13, 2007 – 1:33 pm

The member of the North Carolina House who was manager for the bill has a different story [emphasis in the original]:
As the House member handling Senate Bill 353, which purported to allocate North Carolina’s electoral votes by Congressional district, with two votes reflecting the North Carolina’s popular vote, I moved this bill back to House […]

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Don’t stop electoral college reform in California!

August 7, 2007 – 5:22 pm

Redstate’s Erick Erickson noted yesterday that the electoral college reform in North Carolina stopped because because Howard Dean realized it would give them no feet to stand on in California:
The measure raced through the North Carolina State Senate, the State House was preparing to pass it and the Governor was prepared to sign it, until […]

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North Carolina changes electoral college allocation

July 27, 2007 – 3:12 pm

This is a huge deal. North Carolina is changing the way that it allocates its electors in the electoral college.
So why does this matter? Because instead of the GOP almost certainly getting 15 electors, it will only get 9, with the other 6 going to the Dem, working off the congressional delegation allocation.
The Dems could […]

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