sending the get here ma~~ to Fay.
I have no math to back this up - but ( electoral college) taking a majority of the majority feels wrong, esp if things are close.
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'A Hole in the World'
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beth b - Apr 17, 2006 12:52:34 pm PDT #9724 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Emily - Apr 17, 2006 12:58:03 pm PDT #9725 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
So, I have my very first ever teaching-type interview tomorrow, for a summer Upward Bound position. What should I take? I suppose there's this philosophy of education, although I don't know if it's generally the accepted thing to have a Works Cited list with your philosophy of education. Lesson plans? What else? They gave me no guidance at all.
Sparky1 - Apr 17, 2006 12:58:16 pm PDT #9726 of 10001
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vw, it's always bedtime somewhere.
beth, health ~ma for Matt's mom.
Good luck, Fay!
Trudy Booth - Apr 17, 2006 1:00:58 pm PDT #9727 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Matt's mom was back in the hospital yesterday. at this point, I don't really know anything. Wishing her a lot of health ma~~.
Beth, tell him to give me a shout should he be heading out here again.
Hil R. - Apr 17, 2006 1:02:01 pm PDT #9728 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I have no math to back this up - but ( electoral college) taking a majority of the majority feels wrong, esp if things are close.
What do you mean by taking a majority of the majority?
brenda m - Apr 17, 2006 1:13:49 pm PDT #9729 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
...what's the C in FCM again? Is it chuck? Or cuddle? Or what?
I notice you don't ask about the F.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 17, 2006 1:24:27 pm PDT #9730 of 10001
What is even happening?
Yes. It looks too viscous to not be oil, plus is slightly green.
Oh sheeesh. It's awful what people do to the foodstuffs.
beth b - Apr 17, 2006 1:29:44 pm PDT #9731 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
What do you mean by taking a majority of the majority
the majority of the vote gets all the electoral members of a state. then the majority of those votes determines the winner. it just feels wrong in a close election. Like i said , I have no math to back this up.
Actually, of greater importance to me is that I have met a number of people that feel disenfranchised when they vote in presidential elections. Because they are the minority within a state. no matter what the numbers say , if changeing things to a popular vote made more people vote, I'd be all for it.
meara - Apr 17, 2006 2:02:58 pm PDT #9732 of 10001
I feel disenfranchised!
Oh, wait, that's cause I am. I'll just go sit with ita in the "pay my taxes and get no representation" corner.
I totally think Fay should just come to the US and couch surf for a few months!!
billytea - Apr 17, 2006 2:12:59 pm PDT #9733 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Personally, I don't totally like this analysis, because all the probabilities are built on the assumption that there's an equal chance of any outcome -- pretty much, when calculating how much power a citizen of Ohio has to influence the election, it goes with the assumption that there's an equal chance that California will go Democrat or Republican.
See, I really like this kind of analysis, but ultimately it's answering a different question (I like to think of it as a 'value/power of a single vote' sort of thing, different from an 'impact on the expected outcome' thing), because of the issue given above. The small states tend to share certain features; most notably, an absence of large urban centres. Because voting tendencies aren't (mathematically) independent by geographical factors, the additional weighting towards the small states skews the outcome. In 2000, and I think 2004, if you took out the 'plus two' in the calculation of EC votes, the outcome would've been different.
the majority of the vote gets all the electoral members of a state. then the majority of those votes determines the winner. it just feels wrong in a close election.
Yeah, I agree with this. Maine and Nebraska do it differently, FWIW. There's nothing to prevent a state from apportioning its EC votes by a method other than 'winner-take-all'.