Imagine if N.C. had an electoral college

Mark Robinson ... wins? Welcome to an alternate reality where North Carolina elects governors like the U.S. elects presidents

Here’s a fun thought experiment: Imagine North Carolina adopted the same system we use to choose the president — an electoral college.

Each county gets “electoral votes” equal to the number of N.C. House members it sends to Raleigh, plus one additional vote to simulate U.S. Senate-style representation.

That’s exactly what I did. And the results are eye-opening.

Using this system, Mark Robinson would be governor today — even though he lost the popular vote by double digits.

How? Because Robinson dominated in small, rural counties that get overrepresented under this model, while Gov. Josh Stein’s strength in urban centers like Wake and Mecklenburg gets heavily discounted.

Take a look.