The notion that Romney would have won under a different electoral college system is dubious.

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3. good point, and the obama campaign certainly knows how to strategize by conditions of contest.

that said, republicans aren't trying to change these rules out of principle and they're certainly not doing it because they think it might help the democrats!

yes, obama would have changed strategy based on any rules changes, but at the same time, those changes would have made a rmoney win more likely, which would have had the effect of shifting more campaign money to rmoney and away from obama. that effect would have hurt obama's chances beyond the direct effect of the rules changes.

i agree completely that it's not so simple to go into the past and determine what a single change would have done.

what we do know if that these contemplated changes do not bode well for the future.