[thechat] Bowling for Columbine

Madhu Menon webguru at vsnl.net
Mon Jan 27 15:28:23 CST 2003


At 02:37 AM 28-01-03, Ben Dyer wrote:

>Ben's Wild Prediction(tm): Dubya loses popular vote but wins electoral
>college...again...except this time both Republicans and Democrats miss 45%
>of the popular vote (they got 47-48% in 2000).  Third parties combine
>almost 10%, Nader easily gets the 5% needed to bring federal funding to the
>Green Party, but doesn't win any state.

Damn, it would be so simple just to do this by just the numbers instead of
the terribly confusing system you have. :)

If CandidateX gets more votes than CandidateY in StateZ, he or she wins in
that state. Why not?

Madhu

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