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Koorca Ton
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« on: November 21, 2018, 03:14:58 AM » |
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Definitely. There's a reason Dems took the House but not the Senate.
You don't need to win an entire state to take some seats back. The Democrats were able to turn each Republican state slightly more Democratic. Not enough to flip the entire state, but enough to flip some seats from some states. On the other hand, the DNC struggled in the Senate because they couldn't flip entire states from R to D.
Similarly, Hillary and Gore couldn't win the EC despite winning the PV for basically the same reasons. The two of them racked up large margins of victories in states they won and lost by razor thin margins in states they lost.
So I think it's possible we'll have another victory where someone loses the PV but wins the EC. Most likely a Republican, as Democrats' votes are generally highly concentrated in small but densely populated metropolitan areas. And the EC has shown us population doesn't matter in a national election, but rather the spread of votes overall. Trump had a larger spread of votes, but Hillary had more votes in general.
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