Posted on 08/13/2020 5:35:30 PM PDT by 11th_VA
A ballot cast in New Hampshire is 100,000 times likelier to tip the result than one in Washington, DC
(Interesting graphic at the link)
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
“Why is it always about race “
Because nothing is more important.
The Left can degrade the Electoral College all it wants, they are not getting three-fourths of the States to agree to abolish it.
Let's just hold elections in L.A., NYC and Chicago. Screw the rest of the citizens.
The Economist used to be really good. I used to read it cover to cover every week in the 90s and up until about 2003-2004. I don’t know what happened then but it sadly became just another Yurp rag then. I wouldn’t let my dog crap on a copy of it now for fear he might get some of the ink on him.
Because of Woke Myopia.
For presidential and senate elections that is the constitutional system.
If they don't like it they should move to some socuialist paradise like Venezuela or Cuba.
And many ballots cast in place like NY State, California and other deep blue strongholds are worth nothing in presidential elections.
There is such an overwhelming democrat majority in those places that a republican vote will never tip the scales for a republican.
And once the democrat majority vote is reached each additional democrat vote accomplishes nothing beyond running the numbers up to give people like Hillary a talking point.
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I cannot stand these communist SOB’s.
Apparently they are trying to compare the probability that a single vote determines the outcome of the election. That topic was explored by Andrew Gelman, a well known and respected statistician. The probability has nothing to do with race, but is based on how close to evenly split the political inclinations of the voters in a state are.
So for example, states which have close presidential elections have a much higher probability of a single voter determining the election than states which one party dominates. In 2008 and more recently New Hampshire was on that list since only a small number of votes usually separates the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates. Places like Washington DC vote heavily in one direction and therefore the chance that one person's vote flips the election is much less.
In 2016 based on actual results Michigan would have been on the list, since the race was 47% to 47.3% in favor of Trump with 16 Electoral College votes. If 10,302 fewer people had voted for Trump then the last voter of the 10,303 votes that Trump lead Clinton by in the actual race would have caused Trump to win by one vote.
Here is the Gelman et al paper
Trying to tie the nearly even split in voter preference to the "whiteness" of a state is ridiculous, as is the suggestion in the article that having a balanced electorate is somehow a form of discrimination against African Americans who are living in another state where the voters of all races happen to vote overwhelmingly for a single party.
Because they are racists.
Yeah, and 200 years ago the Founding Fathers plotted to make sure the Electoral College was constructed to favor White voters over black voters.
The president has never been elected on the popular vote.
It’s ALWAYS the electoral college because the states vote for the president, not the people. We’re a representative republic, not a democracy.
It prevents vote fraud and popularity contests and a small fraction of the country deciding what the rest of us have to live with.
Only a Democrat would want to reduce that diversity of political views and create a system where one party always wins.
NO!!!!!
We have enough stinking liberals.
Besides, property values are through the roof.
There are bidding wars on houses and they are selling for way more than asking price.
We got in in just the nick of time last year, and my son just squeaked by in May with a really nice place. Shortly after he closed, the market really opened up and has skyrocketed.
The problem many were having is that the rules for mortgages were changed during the shutdown with so many people out of work.
He was fortunate to have a good down payment, a good paying job, and a history with the lending institution, so he qualified for a mortgage, but he heard many stories of people who were in the process of buying a house and had the rug yanked out from under them as far as mortgage approval goes.
If we don't, it's hello south Africa time.
No thanks.
My son knows a guy from India who is here working and he said that while where they worked was indeed very racially diverse, it was not diverse at all in the realm of thought.
It was basically an echo chamber that tolerated NO dissent.
He told my son that he'd worked in less racially diverse places that were far more diverse in opinion and and willingness to accept others right to it.
LOL - Sorry!
I was merely point out that often, the best solution to ones' situation is to change their situation. If living in DC is deemed to be politically weak (allegedly), then move to a place where your voice is bigger. We are all free people in a free country.
Lies
Mail In Votes Matter
So move to NH. Why is it up to the whites to give up their stuff so blacks feel better?
I really have enough on my plate these days. Adding “feeling” about how unfair life is, is not high on my list of things to give an F about. I could go one for one all night on that subject.
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