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« on: January 07, 2005, 05:08:05 PM »

I put two completely random elections together by just random putting numbers into the URL of a map.  How could these happen?



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« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2005, 05:15:11 PM »

they couldn't
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« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2005, 05:17:58 PM »


Find the candidates you think would make it the closest.
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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2005, 05:33:14 PM »

1st map... Jeb Bush swtiches to the Democratic party.  The states that trust him vote for him the states that dont vote against him.

2nd map... no clue
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2005, 06:19:53 PM »

I put two completely random elections together by just random putting numbers into the URL of a map.  How could these happen?




In the first map there is no way that Nebraska could be won by I think thats over 60 or over 70 percent while a Republican candidate wins two CDs with over 50% of the vote. So it is impossible.
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« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2005, 06:49:19 PM »

I put two completely random elections together by just random putting numbers into the URL of a map.  How could these happen?




In the first map there is no way that Nebraska could be won by I think thats over 60 or over 70 percent while a Republican candidate wins two CDs with over 50% of the vote. So it is impossible.

It is possible, but almost impossible.  There could be extremely high turnout in the one CD and extremely low turnout in the other two.
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« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2005, 07:16:02 PM »
« Edited: January 07, 2005, 09:26:59 PM by True Democrat »

Here's another way that's a little better.  I say it's a different version of 1976, but Reagan instead of Dole.  It might have also been Rockefeller instead of Ford.  The only unexplainable states are Indiana, Wyoming, and Arizona.  The unexplainable percentages are Indiana, Kansas, Nevada, California (although kind of possible with Reagan), Wisconsin, and Maine.

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« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2005, 07:18:28 PM »

And Michigan flips why?
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« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2005, 07:19:20 PM »


See my edited remarks.
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« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2005, 08:47:25 PM »

What a horrifying dilemma
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« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2005, 09:59:12 PM »

Both cases-someone runs promising only to spend money on states x,y,z etc. (the hardcore ones) and those that vote for them, and never tro spend a single cent on states a,b,c etc.
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