2008-12-16, 00:08 | Link #5341 | |
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(names are purely fictional) Right Party: 21% Labor: 20% Center Party: 20% Green Party: 19% Left Party: 20% Aha.
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2008-12-16, 01:05 | Link #5342 | |
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Yet that being said the Rural/Urban thing by states is somewhat misleading. Cause most states are breadbasket middle america with the exception of a few urban centers. Also a unique anomaly to the high industry/ high taxes thing is Texas. It has one of the lowest tax rates and one the highest economic outputs. Many say it's due to buisness incentives and productivity. Plus the southeast as in NC (Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham) and GA (Atlanta) are gradually becoming more and more important economically just like the NE and California. Even Birmingham in Alabama is growing too, so I think you are a little off the mark there. Now the DEEP SOUTH, Great Plains and Appalachia are a different story. Also, I think it's the closest towards perfect equal representation in terms of voicing your needs in the federal structure. Otherwise, it would be rather unfair don't you think? |
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2008-12-16, 01:52 | Link #5343 | |
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Blame the people, don't blame the system! (sadly, this absurd thing is true....) |
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2008-12-16, 08:17 | Link #5344 | |
I disagree with you all.
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2008-12-24, 23:13 | Link #5348 |
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Update on the Minnesota Senate race:
The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously shot down Coleman's latest attempt to hold on to his Senate seat. In all likelihood, Al Franken will become the newest Senator from the State of Minnesota.
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2008-12-25, 02:52 | Link #5351 | |
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There are other sources of irregularity, too -- errors in the counting, either mechanical or human-based. Ballots that somehow miss getting counted the first time or the other. Absentee ballots may take a while to arrive even if postmarked in time, or may get lost in the mail. And so forth. These things only make up a very small percentage of the total vote... but there were 2.9 million votes cast in Minnesota on election day, so even a very small percentage of that is enough to swing a very close election -- for instance, this shift is less than 300 votes, which is just around 0.01 percent of the total votes cast (that's not one percent, that's point zero one percent.) Even if only one in ten-thousand votes has a problem with it, that could influence the results. On top of that, these problems are not necessarily evenly distributed over all voters. Often, there are only one or two places with problems -- one incompetent poll worker or malfunctioning machine can cause a huge number of problems in their district, say. If that happens in a Democratic-leaning district, the 'corrections' in the recount will heavily favor Democrats; if it happens in a Republican-leaning district, the corrections will favor Republicans. And (perhaps because Democrats get more votes from extremely poor lower-class voters), it is more common for voter errors to be made by Democratic voters than Republicans. Nobody is actually casting votes at this point. But no matter how good the system is, there are occasional glitches... and when the vote comes down to a point-zero-one-percent difference, those glitches can make a big difference. This was what happened to the general election in Florida in 2000, although it wasn't quite this close, and in that case the Supreme Court eventually halted recounts... Last edited by Aquillion; 2008-12-30 at 00:58. |
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