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Question: Who do you support?
#1
Senator Birch Bayh/Governor Jimmy Carter (D)
 
#2
Representative Pete McCloskey/Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R)
 
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Partisan results

Total Voters: 26

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Unconditional Surrender Truman
Harry S Truman
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« on: March 21, 2016, 06:45:06 PM »

Bayh!
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Unconditional Surrender Truman
Harry S Truman
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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2016, 11:24:12 PM »

I'm confused... given the results of the popular vote, how is it possible (mathematically) for Bayh to have carried most of his states with pluralities of less than 50% (and less than 40% in SD)? According to the above post, the two major parties won roughly 100.0% of all ballots cast. This means that the most any third party candidate could have won is .04% of the national popular vote (any more would round up to .1%, which would yield a cumulative total of 100.1% nationally when added to the totals for Bayh and McCloskey). The above map, however, suggests an unusually strong third party bid, one strong enough to keep the winning candidate under 50% in 19 states and with remarkable cross-regional strength. Unless you're using a different shading key than most of the maps on Atlas, I just don't see how that adds up.
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