The Washington Post offers this report, with the subhead: “Only 59 of the Nation’s 435 Congressional Districts Split Their Vote for President and House.” It includes the following paragraph: “How would Bush and Kerry have fared if the electoral college determined its allocation of electoral votes on the basis of who won each congressional district, as some advocate, rather than on who wins the popular vote in each state? Bensen crunched those numbers and concluded that Bush would have won by an even larger margin, with 317 electoral votes rather than the 286 he actually captured.”