I do not think even the GOPs massive PA vote suppression effort is enough to accomplish that.
Joel Send a noteboard - 05/11/2012 06:38:05 PM
The consensus (with which I concur) is Romneys PA, MI, MN (!) and WI ad buys are because:
1) His hopeless plight in OH (if it is counted fairly) and VA slipping away make him desperate for another big state to reach 270,
2) He is blustering to convince the public (in no small part via media) his momentum did not disappear after the last debate (despite, nay, BECAUSE, it did) and
3) There is literally NO ad time left to buy in FL, OH or VA, and finishing a campaign with money left is like finishing a game with time outs left: Wasting resources.
1) His hopeless plight in OH (if it is counted fairly) and VA slipping away make him desperate for another big state to reach 270,
2) He is blustering to convince the public (in no small part via media) his momentum did not disappear after the last debate (despite, nay, BECAUSE, it did) and
3) There is literally NO ad time left to buy in FL, OH or VA, and finishing a campaign with money left is like finishing a game with time outs left: Wasting resources.
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Could Ohio Kill the Electoral College?
- 05/11/2012 04:43:48 PM
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Well, let's hope Romney takes Pennsylvania, too, so we don't have to worry about this. *NM*
- 05/11/2012 05:46:22 PM
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I do not think even the GOPs massive PA vote suppression effort is enough to accomplish that.
- 05/11/2012 06:38:05 PM
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It's not impossible. I roughly reversed engineered Silver's tipping point simulation...
- 05/11/2012 11:06:16 PM
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what? directly vote for president? COMMUNISM!
- 05/11/2012 06:01:00 PM
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Seems like everything is communism these days, even/especially things that are not.
- 05/11/2012 06:56:55 PM
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A simple solution: proportional allocation of electors from each state with 15 votes or more.
- 05/11/2012 08:34:08 PM
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I prefer 1 EV per house district, with 2 EVs going to state winners
- 05/11/2012 08:40:50 PM
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it would certainly make the races more interesting.....
- 05/11/2012 09:09:24 PM
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If not for gerrymandering I would consider this the ideal solution.
- 05/11/2012 09:26:01 PM
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But in that system, the small states would be bypassed completely
- 05/11/2012 09:55:49 PM
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You mean even more than they already are (outside of the NH primaries)?
- 05/11/2012 11:17:14 PM
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Me too actually, but only with computerized semi-random redistricting *NM*
- 06/11/2012 05:38:25 AM
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why would there need to be a nation-wide recount? don't the states keep their own tallies?
- 05/11/2012 09:08:04 PM
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What if none of the states were close enough for a recount, but the country as a whole was?
- 05/11/2012 09:23:33 PM
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i suppose at that point the Supreme Court would have every justification to hear the case....
- 06/11/2012 06:07:06 PM
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What Legolas said; if we did it by national popular vote, recounts would need to be national.
- 05/11/2012 09:34:30 PM
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I like that idea, though I have long felt Larrys idea of using Congressional Districts is better.
- 05/11/2012 09:22:49 PM
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