What a stupid fucking electoral system. Least actually-democratic system in the western world by far.

trump-anguish

    • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Seriously we could have saved a year of time and a couple billion dollars by making the election a two week event and literally nobodies mind would have been changed.

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    Based on this map he only needs to win Pennsylvania or Michigan or Wisconsin, all of which are effectively tied. Lots of pathways to win. Kamala’s got to win all three, or lose Pennsylvania and pick up like North Carolina.

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    More or less.

    Current odds I’ve seen is that Pa is ‘the state’ that decides the election about 1/3 of the time, with the other 6 ‘battleground’ state making up most of the rest of the 2/3s

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    matt-jokerfied

    Four years before a presidential election, each state gets to make its case to be “The One!”

    Its kind of like America’s Got Talent or one of those shows where people sing at a panel of celebrities.

    After 4 years of making their individual cases, slowly having the number of competitors winnowed down by viewer votes, the final state gets to be “The One!”. The only state that matters during the presidential election. Think about it? All the wasted resources trying to campaign in states where a candidate KNOWS they aren’t going to win, knows that the Electoral College invalidates the votes FOR all of the candidates that didn’t get the majority. All the plane trips, all the Secret Service and local cops having to fuck up traffic in every city or town during a political event, all the campaign ads spread out inefficiently across the entire 50 states and US territories, all the handwringing about voting for the lesser of two monstrous evils… can just be focused at the state that gets to be “The One!” this year.

    partiotism

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      From what I can tell, yeah. At least according to the lanyard-dorks at 538: the blue genociders need to win every single swing state, but the red genociders just need to win PA. That’s assuming the red genociders win Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.

      The only poll that matters is election day of course, but it seems IMO more likely for the wet boy to take it.

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    omg, it really is gonna be 269 to 269, isn’t it 😂

    this is going to be so fucking funny, except for the risk of violence

    do we think the libs will Rise Up if the tiebreaker goes to Trump, or will the MIC prevent his winning a tiebreak, or will they just work with him again because he was tolerable before, or what