Excellent! As we're seeing with the re-politicization of the SCOTUS, more decisions are made in smoky back rooms than I'd been reared to believe. These Legal Eagle episodes are helpful:
Problems with the Electoral College ft. Extra Credits https://youtu.be/KYVw9lPiCHQ On 11/2/20 8:05 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > I think I have a counterexample, if such things exist when discussing > probability. > > The US presidential election with the highest turnout (81.8%, as a percentage > of the voting age population) was the Tiden-Hayes election of 1876. It is > also the smallest electoral vote victory (185-184). The winner of the popular > vote (by 3%) did not win the election. The result ultimately came from a > back, presumably smoky, room. > > —Barry > > On 28 Oct 2020, at 19:19, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > > From: > > https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2020/Pres/Maps/Oct28.html#item-7 > <https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2020/Pres/Maps/Oct28.html#item-7> > "6. High turnout makes razor-thin victories, like the ones Trump notched > in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in 2016, much less likely." > > Is that true? I've always heard that tight races lead to higher turnout, > which would imply that high turnout would correlate WITH thin victories, not > against them. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
