electoral-college

Yesterday he was in DC when a reporter asked him if he supported the governor's electoral-college scheme.

Sen. Daylin Leach: Thank You, Rick Santorum Sen. Daylin Leach 2011

While some websites will let you tally up electoral votes or gamble on state-by-state election results, Mathematica 6 makes it easy to write your own electoral-college simulator with just a few lines of code and seed it with different sets of polling data from sources like Mason-Dixon, Rasmussen, or Quinnipiac.

Wolfram Blog : Analyzing U.S. 2008 Elections with Mathematica 2008

For example, fixing the national random swing factor at six produces the following average numbers of electoral-college votes, by state-specific random swing strength:

Wolfram Blog : Analyzing U.S. 2008 Elections with Mathematica 2008

Call them the "Doomsday" scenarios -- On Nov. 5, the presidential election winds up in a electoral-college tie, 269-269, the Democrat-controlled House picks Sen. Barack Obama as president, but the Senate, with former Democrat Joe Lieberman voting with Republicans, deadlocks at 50-50, so Vice President Dick Cheney steps in to break the tie to make Republican Sarah Palin his successor.

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We should quit being a debtor nation. &, then, there's electoral-college abolition; I'm an abolitionist.

McCain Says Bailout Bill He Voted For Is "Putting Us On The Brink Of Economic Disaster" 2009

November 4, 2008 Barack Obama is elected president in an electoral-college landslide.

An Oral History of the Bush White House Purdum, Cullen Murphy and Todd S. 2009

(Five hundred thirty-eight is the sum of electoral-college votes up for contention.)

The Good, the Bad, and Joe Lieberman Wolcott, James 2009

Having been a popular two-term Governor of Indiana, Evan Bayh also has that vital executive experience that both Senators Obama and Clinton lack, and to top it all, Indiana is a swing state, likely pivotal in the very closely fought electoral-college battle that we are predicted to witness later this year.

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Ultimately, Kerry got 252 electoral-college votes and Bush 286, with Ohio providing the decisive 20 votes.

Printing: Campaign 2008: The Electoral College 2008

What's more, they say, the electoral-college math favors Clinton.

Dee Dee Myers: Hillary's Fuzzy Math 2008