Unlike other states, Maine can split its electoral votes. The candidate who wins a plurality gets two of Maine’s electoral votes; the other two are given to the winner in each congressional district. A candidate who loses the statewide vote could still pick up one electoral vote, and analysts have suggested that more rural and conservative northern Maine, including Bangor, could go for Bush.
Remember that Colorado may become the
secondthird (see below) state to divide electoral votes. mjh
mjh’s Blog: Very Interesting Electoral Development
Update:
Mark –
Nebraska also does the weird-ass proportional thing with its electoral
college votes. (Actually, the rest of us are weird-ass, and Nebraska
and Maine are the ones that are doing something that sorta makes more
sense?)
Cheers,
John Fleck
[Thanks, John.]