At 02:37 PM 10/11/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>> >The monsters have a huge advantage going in, folks. With home bases
>> >in Confederate and rural states, they get up to 30 extra electoral
>> >votes.
>>
>> 30 Extra?
>
>I'm not sure it is 30, but Bush has the advantage that his voters, on
>average, have higher weighed votes than Kerry voters.
As I pointed out in my Electoral College Analysis reply to Byron, this is a
popular misconception that just plain isn't true. This is because,
Democrats get 3 "charity" EV's from DC, DE, and VT (somewhat offsetting AK,
MT, ND, SD, WY)and dominate the lower end of the 4 EV tier with HI, RI, ME
and somewhat Democrat-trending NH.
For example, if one assigns all of the States on the basis of the 2000
Presidential vote, and divides 2003 population by 2004 electoral votes, you
get:
461,913 Blue Staters per Electoral Vote
453,567 Red Staters per Electoral Vote
Not as big a difference as you might expect.
JDG
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