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Bush edging Kerry in Electoral College votes
 

The Associated Press' analysis of state polls and strategists' interviews indicates that President Bush has 25 states and 213 Electoral College votes to challenger John Kerry's 14 states and 193 votes.

It takes 270 votes to become president. The candidates are in a dead heat in 11 states that have 128 electoral votes, including Florida. Two other tossup states (Pennsylvania and Oregon) could move soon into Kerry's ledger.

In the 2000 election, Bush got one more electoral vote than was needed to win (271). Al Gore finished with 267 electoral votes. The college has shifted in 4 years, moving a few more votes to states Bush won. A Bush strategist called the race "tied."

 		 
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  9 Comments
  
  gerrymander?  
 
Who decides to move the votes? How is the population calculated? Interesting system, sort of like our federal senate (australia) I suppose.
 
 by: jendres     07/25/2004 05:21 PM     
  re: jendres  
 
according to the source, people have been pouring into the bush-supporting states, raising their populations. does this color their political views, though?
 
 by: sbenglish     07/25/2004 05:34 PM     
  Yes  
 
The electoral college sucks.
 
 by: RomJeremy   07/25/2004 06:02 PM     
  I don't...  
 
...listen to polls. The only thing that counts is the election. If the lazy ignorant people who aren't registered would just register and vote this November we might have an honest election for a change.
 
 by: lurker     07/25/2004 07:06 PM     
  The college serves it's purpose  
 

Our National Government is a composite;

The STATES elect the president, not the people of them, per se.

The people do, in esssence, but it is the States themselves which matter.

It's the nature of the system.

What I *do* agree with is the system of calculation which divides up the electoral votes to most closely match the popular vote.

Ie, 60/40 in a 5-electoral vote state:

3 to 60%, and 2 to 40%

That effectively accomplishes the same thing as a directly-democratic voting system, while preserving the nature of the State's vote process.

And -- sidenote: Polls suck.
 
 by: verboten   07/26/2004 05:31 AM     
  Yeah but what happens when nobody get 270 points?  
 
Do they arm wrestle?
 
 by: woger     07/26/2004 05:41 AM     
  of course not, woger  
 
this is America! (They duel it out with pistols.)
 
 by: sbenglish     07/26/2004 06:08 AM     
  Original design was a republic, not a  
 
The original design of the founders was a republic of states, not a filthy vile democracy! Unfortunately, the US government becomes more corrupt as it becomes more 'democratic', more populist and less principled.
Large 'majorities' are too weak in character and poorly informed to make proper decisions.
 
 by: Luhker     07/26/2004 02:06 PM     
  Pistols....BAH!  
 
How archaic, this is the 21st century, we have upgraded to sub-machineguns.
 
 by: RomJeremy   07/26/2004 02:52 PM     
 
 
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