For electoral questions, we move away from a binary view of the election (such as, "Are you voting for Trump or Clinton?") and instead ask respondents to allocate their vote out of 100percentt.
The commission voted on partisan lines to give Hayes the electoral votes in question, and Tilden lost.
Electoral officials have questioned the feasibility of such an idea.
Whether it continues to work in the general election is the 270-Electoral-College-delegates question.
He said: "The Electoral Office has questions to answer about this.
While it would be nice to think that formerly "Reagan Democrats" had turned around and signed up for socialist political revolution, the electoral map raises questions.
A Supreme Court decision most likely would render the issue moot as a topic for electoral debate, although questions such as whether business owners who oppose same-sex marriages can refuse to serve gay couples could still arise.
Prior to the debate, I sent an email to my colleague and friend, Rachel Sklar, predicting that the balance of the questions would favor electoral process and media obsession questions to the detriment of issues of the public interest.
But he suggested that another question on electoral reform might one day be put to the electorate.
