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To: Momaw Nadon
State % Chance of Bush Winning electoral votes  
Alabama 96 9 8.64
Alaska 96 3 2.88
Arizona 83 10 8.3
Arkansas 80 6 4.8
California 9.5 55 5.225
Colorado 76 9 6.84
Connecticut 7 7 0.49
Delaware 18 3 0.54
District of Columbia 1 3 0.03
Florida 70 27 18.9
Georgia 97 15 14.55
Hawaii 10 4 0.4
Idaho 96 4 3.84
Illinois 12 21 2.52
Indiana 96 11 10.56
Iowa 45 7 3.15
Kansas 96 6 5.76
Kentucky 92 8 7.36
Louisiana 91 9 8.19
Maine 28 4 1.12
Maryland 16 10 1.6
Massachusetts 4 12 0.48
Michigan 28 17 4.76
Minnesota 41.8 10 4.18
Mississippi 96 6 5.76
Missouri 80 11 8.8
Montana 94 3 2.82
Nebraska 97.5 5 4.875
Nevada 65 5 3.25
New Hampshire 54.9 4 2.196
New Jersey 23 15 3.45
New Mexico 42 5 2.1
New York 8 31 2.48
North Carolina 93 15 13.95
North Dakota 96 3 2.88
Ohio 73.7 20 14.74
Oklahoma 97 7 6.79
Oregon 36 7 2.52
Pennsylvania 45 21 9.45
Rhode Island 4 4 0.16
South Carolina 97 8 7.76
South Dakota 96 3 2.88
Tennessee 85 11 9.35
Texas 98 34 33.32
Utah 97 5 4.85
Vermont 8 3 0.24
Virginia 91 13 11.83
Washington 24.5 11 2.695
West Virginia 77 5 3.85
Wisconsin 62 10 6.2
Wyoming 97 3 2.91
Totals   538 297.221

16 posted on 09/20/2004 7:56:53 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

That previous posting is a weighting of the number of electoral votes Bush will receive by how likely he is to win each state. For instance, if Bush has a 50-50 chance of winning a given state, he is credited with 50% of that states electoral votes. So the 4th column is how many weighted electoral votes he will receive.

Because the odds of his winning each state are statistically linked (i.e., doing well in one state is correlated with doing well with another state), the actual number of electoral vote result will probably be much less close.


18 posted on 09/20/2004 8:00:49 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

Statistics major? ;^)


20 posted on 09/20/2004 8:03:38 AM PDT by Teacher317
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