Friday, September 09, 2011
The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven States - WSJ.com
The American election system is quite "interesting".
We constantly hear "every vote counts" and "count every vote", and that is certainly true.
And then, there's the Electoral College...
We constantly hear "every vote counts" and "count every vote", and that is certainly true.
And then, there's the Electoral College...
Larry J. Sabato discusses the circumstances in the Wall Street Journal:
"Both parties are sensibly planning for a close election. For all the talk about how Hispanics or young people will vote, the private chatter is about a few vital swing states. It's always the Electoral College math that matters most.
Voting is predictable for well over half the states, so even 14 months out it's easy to shade in most of the map for November 2012."
