The Republican Electoral College Advantage

Last week, we released the 25th Anniversary edition of the Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠). The Cook PVI measures how each state and district performs at the presidential level compared to the nation as a whole. Among the many insights gleaned by my colleague David Wasserman from that report was that “Republicans continue to benefit from an electoral map tilted in their favor on nearly all levels.”

In fact, when looking exclusively at the Electoral College map, Republicans are enjoying a stronger advantage than at any point in the 25-year history of the Cook PVI. CONTINUED

Amy Walter, Cook Political Report with Amy Walter


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