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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: July 03, 2004, 11:35:54 PM »

It's a lot more difficult for the GOP to win the popular vote while losing the electoral vote. If the popular vote of each state were adjusted in the same ratio that the electoral vote was affected, then Bush would have had a 36,000 vote margin in the adjusted popular vote.  The electoral colllege did exactly what it was designed to in 2000, it gave the small states more clout than they otherwise would have had.
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« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2004, 08:43:44 AM »

When I was crunching the numbers for the 36,000 figure I gave earlier, I also crunched winner take all numbers with EV proportional to population and Gore would have won 269.12-268.88.
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« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2004, 02:45:47 PM »

No each state gote a number of EV's equal to 538 * state population / total population of the 50 states and DC without any rounding being applied.  Then winner take all was applied to the votes of each state.
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« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2004, 08:50:52 PM »

No each state got a number of EV's equal to 538 * state population / total population of the 50 states and DC without any rounding being applied.  
Not exactly.  Each state gets (435 * statepop/totalpop) + 2.  DC gets 3.  Electoral votes is equal to the number of Representatives + number of Senators in Congress.
I was explicitly undoing the advantage that small states get in the electoral college with my method. Very small states get an advantage from round off as well, but that in no way compares to the advtage that states with 8 or fewer representatives in the House gain in the Electoral College gain by counting Senators as well.
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