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Electoral Math Charts Updated

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

It's time once again to take a look at the Electoral College math from state-level polling. Nationwide polls are not completely meaningless, but they are pretty irrelevant as that's not how we elect a president.

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Exclusive Interview: An M.I.T. And A Yale Professors' Cure For The Electoral College

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I had the chance recently to interview two professors in the field of statistics (from Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology),...

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Charting The Electoral Math Looks Good For Obama

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

It's been about a month since we last took a look under the microscope at the possible outcomes of the Electoral College vote this November, so it's time for an update.

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Electoral Math, From Knucklebiter To Landslide

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I am ready to take a look at the map and do some electoral math. Now, we're still pretty far out from Election Day, but we've got to start somewhere.

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The Story of the Race So Far -- the Surprising Weakness of John McCain

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

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Simon Rosenberg

McCain is a weak and bumbling candidate, ill-suited for a presidential race, and is still struggling to bring his party together. His polling numbers have slipped from the low 40s to 38, 36 -- and now 33.

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Seth Colter Walls

Plouffe: Obama "Enormously Competitive" In Over A Dozen Battleground States

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

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David Plouffe is a tough interview to get. When the Wall Street Journal ran a profile of Barack Obama's campaign manager last week, they relied on the...

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Obama Could Win Vote, Lose Election

Politico | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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Until 2000, it hadn't happened in more than 100 years, but plugged-in observers from both parties see a distinct possibility of Barack Obama winning t...

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Why President Obama Could Lose Ohio & Florida

Ari Melber | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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Ari Melber

If Obama can close the deal out West -- winning back Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico while simply holding the states that went for Kerry in 2004 -- then he can win.

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What Happens If Obama And McCain Reach Exact Tie In Electoral College?

FiveThirtyEight.com | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Since we got some good discussion started in the polling thread about the possibility of a 269-269 electoral tie, I thought I'd run some numbers on it...

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Friday Talking Points [35] -- Tim Russert Memorial Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Nobody seriously annoyed me this week, but I will launch a pre-emptive finger-wagging, to anyone on the left who can't resist the urge to be disrespectful of Tim Russert's memory right now.

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Disenfranchised Again in California

Tad Daley | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Tad Daley

The democracy fatigue that so many of us are experiencing this week in Los Angeles could have been remedied with one easy modification to the electoral system: instant runoff voting.

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Campaign 2008: The Electoral College

Bob Burnett | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

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Bob Burnett

According to the latest polls, if the election were held today: Obama would receive 260 electoral votes, McCain would get 240, and the remaining 38 are too close to call.

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1964

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

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Lincoln Mitchell

1964 was the last time a Democratic nominee for President carried majority of the white working class vote, measured by either income or education.

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Clinton: Not Exactly The Great White Hope

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.

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Senator Proposes Sweeping Election Reforms

Jacob Soboroff | Posted 04.29.2008 | Home

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Jacob Soboroff

Last week I visited with Senator Bill Nelson (D-FLA) in his Washington, D.C. office to discuss his plan to change the way and day we vote, and why he chose now to introduce his plan.

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Jason Linkins

SurveyUSA: Let's Get Electoral!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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We have no Democratic nominee yet, but that doesn't mean that your pollsters are holding back on thinking ahead. SurveyUSA has jump started this disc...

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Max Follmer

GOP Backers Of California Electoral Vote Initiative Raise Half-Million Dollars In Two Weeks

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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GOP proponents of a California ballot initiative to end the state's winner-take-all method of apportioning electoral votes have raised roughly $539,00...

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GOP Effort To Reapportion Calif Electoral Votes Crumbles

The New York Times' "The Caucus" Blog | Jennifer Steinhauer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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An effort to change the way electoral votes are apportioned in California has been stunningly abandoned and left for dead, even though most voters did...

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