Republican candidates are trailing Hillary Clinton in the presidential polls but the revival of a campaign to change the way California allocates its 55 electoral college votes has raised the party's hopes for next year's election.

The California Counts campaign, which has several prominent Republican backers, wants to replace the "winner-takes-all" system for electoral vote allocation with one based on the number of congressional districts won by each candidate.

"It would essentially give away 22 electoral college votes that a Democrat candidate could count on [in California]," said Steven Hill, director of the political reform programme for the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank.

If the proposal is ratified, the number of electoral votes picked up by the Republican candidate could be more than the combined electoral votes of Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. ...

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