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- From: brock@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bradley W. Brock)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,alt.politics.elections
- Subject: Re: Electoral college (was Re: Bill Clinton and Complex Analysis : -))
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 20:48:26 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
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- In article <israel.720991427@unixg.ubc.ca> israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert B.
- Israel) writes:
- > To get a plurality, rather than a majority, in the electoral college,
- > you just need about 1/9, rather than 1/6.
- >
- > This is not entirely a fanciful exercise. It could quite easily happen
- > that a candidate with fairly strong appeal in one half of the country and
- > little in the other would be elected despite finishing a poor third in
- > popular vote.
-
- Which is not that far removed from how Lincoln won in 1860 with a plurality of
- only 40%. I might add that Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison both won
- despite finishing second in the popular vote.
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