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2000 Election with Proportional Electoral Votes

Posted by michael on from the hypothetically-speaking dept.

Trillian_1138 writes "I just finished hammering out a quick analyzation of the US 2000 Presidential Election and thought Slashdot might find it interesting. Specifically, what if all states had used a proportional assignment of electoral votes, in stead of the present all-or-nothing assignment most states use? Well, here's what I found. In the end, if every state had assigned their electoral votes in a proportional fashion, Bush would have defeated Gore in 2000, 259.008 to 253.077. The system I used allowed for percentages of votes, which is very unlikely to happen, but I still think the results are interesting. Check it out, and please let me know what you think. I'm not sure if having the electoral college AND proportional assignment of votes defeats the intention of the Electoral College in the first place, and the current Electoral College system does ensure one candidate must win a majority of Electoral votes, which the system I made would fail to meet. Oh well..."

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  1. Re:I don't mind being the first.... by Funksaw · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm a city person.

    The problem is that it seems that California and New York are being held to the will of the rural states. This is why Bush got the presidency despite the fact that more people didn't wanted the other guy to be president.

    And so far as I can tell, I'm more than happy to see some states, like the ones in the South, secede. The difference between the educated, urbane populations and the faith-based folk in the rural areas are so great that they require two seperate systems of governance.

    Personally, I don't trust Rural people, who don't know what it's like to live in the real world. Presidents who get the rural vote by pandering to talk about God, Guns, and Gays, don't have to worry at all about health-care, social security, people who SALTWATER fish for a living (or did you think all those coastal ports were rural?) cops, industrial workers, institutions of higher learning, terrorism, or anything else that takes place within major urban areas.

    Rural people don't know what it's like to live in the real world.