One State Is Too Big To Lose

This being an election year, it dawned on me (once again) that one certain state is too big for its britches (and budgetary brain power!). California has 55 electoral votes out of 538. That's 10.22% of the total and 20.3% of the total needed to win (271). This means 1/5 of the work necessary to be elected President is done if California is won.

That is too much power and too much political pandering in one state. The brilliance of the Constitutional compromise that gave us equal representation in the Senate and per capita representation in the House remains brilliant to this day; however, it is skewed when it comes to the electoral college--all per capita.

By the way, Texas is second with 34 votes and New York is third with 31.

Here's my solution; another Constitutional amendment. This one would split a state if it gets too many votes in the electoral college. A line must be drawn somewhere and I'll call it 15% of the total needed to win. If a state gets more than 15%, it should be split as the people of the state find fit (into two or three, etc) The one rule to the split would be that no remnant would end up with more than 10% of the electoral total needed to win.

The two big conundrums for the People's Republik of Kalifornia would be... How do we split all that debt from living beyond our means for the last 40 years? The other would be: Do we put liberal whack-jobs in one half and the normal people (a.k.a. extremists) in the other half, or try to make both winable.