Or if they want to keep it at 538, they’d have to reassign the votes/seats and they’d probably go to the lower representative-voter ratio states, which are mostly not red states.
The gop would also lose a ton of funding.
I mean, it’ll never happen because the gop wouldn’t allow it. They’d never win another national election for the White House and would likely be a permanent minority in Congress. Remember that dude that wanted to split California into 4 separate states and then ran off to Russia after his idea tanked?
It would also reduce the number needed to win.
538 EC votes / 2 = 269. 50%+1 for the win so 270.
Texas drops out, so now it goes from 538 to 498. / 2 = 249. 50%+1=250 to win.
And suddenly 270towin.com needs a new CNAME.
Just playing around with what something like that might look like:
So would fivethirtyeight.com
Or if they want to keep it at 538, they’d have to reassign the votes/seats and they’d probably go to the lower representative-voter ratio states, which are mostly not red states.
The gop would also lose a ton of funding.
I mean, it’ll never happen because the gop wouldn’t allow it. They’d never win another national election for the White House and would likely be a permanent minority in Congress. Remember that dude that wanted to split California into 4 separate states and then ran off to Russia after his idea tanked?