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Fuzzybigfoot
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« on: December 15, 2010, 11:29:11 PM »





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« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2010, 11:37:33 PM »
Comments are appreciated! 
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« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2010, 11:41:35 PM »
Damn.

That is one epic gerrymander.

Nice work, man!
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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2010, 11:45:21 PM »
Quote from: Dallasfan65 on December 15, 2010, 11:41:35 PM
Damn.

That is one epic gerrymander.

Nice work, man!


Thanks  Smiley

I wonder how big the riots would be if this actually happened.  Grin
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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2010, 11:49:11 PM »
Now do 1984 Tongue
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« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2010, 11:59:32 PM »
« Edited: December 16, 2010, 12:02:32 AM by Mr. Fuzzleton »

I actually tried, and I got Mondale up to 170 E.V. before I ran out of big Democratic counties.  Tongue
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« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2010, 01:23:20 AM »
Great gerrymander!
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« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2010, 02:26:45 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Fuzzleton on December 15, 2010, 11:59:32 PM

I actually tried, and I got Mondale up to 170 E.V. before I ran out of big Democratic counties.  Tongue

Just make every Mondale county it's own state and stack the EV count.

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« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2010, 02:30:46 PM »
Awesome ! Cheesy What a horrible map...
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« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2010, 06:49:14 PM »

Well he does have a 10% deficit, which kind of makes normal boundaries impossible. Wink
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« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2010, 03:38:16 PM »
It's great (in a morbid sort of way) though I only count 265 EV's.
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« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2010, 01:35:03 AM »
Quote from: Imperial Speaker Yelnoc on December 18, 2010, 03:38:16 PM
It's great (in a morbid sort of way) though I only count 265 EV's.

Hmm.  I counted 271, but I posted it at 1 a.m., so I'll take another look. 
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« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2010, 01:42:20 AM »
Yep, got 271 again. 
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« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2010, 12:36:10 PM »
I want to see an epic re-draw for 1964 Barry Goldwater!
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« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2011, 03:25:43 PM »
Quote from: DS0816 on December 19, 2010, 12:36:10 PM
I want to see an epic re-draw for 1964 Barry Goldwater!

That would be something to see
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« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2011, 08:01:47 AM »
Interesting how Carter's margin in Georgia could make up for his deficits in 7 surrounding states. Reagan really did luck out on his Electoral College margin - the seven closest states were all won by him. A uniform swing of less than 1% from R to D would have more than doubled Carter's EVs, a uniform swing of less than 1.5% would have more than tripled them. The map looks really blue but it wasn't really a landslide.
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« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2011, 08:06:01 AM »
I'd like a rundown of many of these states, especially as they can be hard to make out.
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« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2011, 12:17:52 AM »
Hmm, another (less ambitious idea), inspired by your drawing together of Southern states and this thread of mine, what about using inter-state electoral compacts to gerrymander a Republican victory?

For instance, McCain pretty clearly won a majority in the Bush 04 states. So if the Bush 04 states voted afterwards to uniformly give their Electoral Voters to the plurality winner of all compact states, McCain would have won. For how many elections can you do this with (a) no hindsight, so you use the past election's results and (b) with hindsight, so you can design the compact in retrospect. Bonus points if you can create a contiguous zone or zones (it's generally easier for Republicans to do this).
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« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2011, 12:27:21 AM »
Nevada and Colorado were actually admitted as states to give Republicans electoral votes.
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