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To: Libloather
"It takes 270 electoral votes of the 538 apportioned among the states and awarded in separate winner-take-all contests to win the election."

AS USUAL, the reporter displays his complete ignorance. NOT ALL of the states electoral votes are allocated in a "winner-take-all" fashion. There ARE states that allocate electoral votes according to other criteria--one state (don't recall which at the moment) having the electoral vote allocated by party majority vote in its Congressional districts, with two votes (representing the "Senatorial" electors) allocated according to the overall state majority vote.

9 posted on 09/23/2004 5:28:35 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Two states -- Maine and Nebraska.


16 posted on 09/23/2004 5:34:15 PM PDT by Publius (Sleep nude; don't FReep nude.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

In Maine the EV's get divided up in special cases.
The popular vote winner gets 2 EV's, the winner of Congressional District #1 gets 1EV and the winner of Cong Dist #2 gets 1EV. Bush is slightly ahead in Cong Dist #2 and slightly ahead, within margin of error in the state as a whole.


17 posted on 09/23/2004 5:34:38 PM PDT by PubliusEXMachina
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To: Wonder Warthog
NOT ALL of the states electoral votes are allocated in a "winner-take-all" fashion. There ARE states that allocate electoral votes according to other criteria...

Two states I know of that do that are Nebraska and Maine. I think Bush got one electoral vote in Maine last time, but I might be mistaken. If it turns out to be another cliff-hanger (which I doubt) ONE electoral vote could make the difference however, and these are strange times we're living in.

38 posted on 09/23/2004 6:30:19 PM PDT by ARepublicanForAllReasons (A socialist is just a communist who has run out of bullets.)
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