zorkpolitics
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« on: September 16, 2004, 10:02:59 PM » |
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Baseball also works well as an analogy for the Electoral College.
The United States is a Federal Republic with power shared between states and the federal government. Hence states should play a role in selecting the President.
In Baseball who wins the World Series? the team that scores the most runs or the team that wins the most games? Obviously the team that wins the most games.
So in the Electoral College it is the candidate that wins the most Electoral Votes by winning many differnet states, not the candidate who gets the most popular votes, that wins the election.
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