minionofmidas
Lewis Trondheim
Atlas Institution
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« on: January 29, 2004, 05:35:40 AM » |
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Yeah, I'd actually started to do the same yesterday, only 1992-2000 yet but I would have continued now if you hadn't done it for me.
Basically the US election system has two inbuilt factors of unfairness that work against each other: The small state bonus, which tends to favor Republicans, and the winner takes all system itself, which favors large states and thus tends to favor Democrats. So now we have an answer to the old question of which one has more effect...And it's the statistician's standard answer: Depends.
Though 14:7 for the Reps is a clear bias, it's not as strong as the 2000 result would lead you to believe. It's the most extreme result since 1984 and since 1940 before that.
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