[extropy-chat] Democracy in action!

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> Yahoo's data as of now:
> 
> Candidate Electoral   States Won Vote % Votes
> 
> Bush           195   22   52%     21,533,444
> Kerry           112   11    47%     19,684,284
> 
> So it take Kerry 175,753 votes to get an electoral vote, and Bush
> 110,428.

That is a really interesting way of putting it Damien. I believe you've
hit upon a good metric of measuring race winners: how much they have to
pay for a vote, how many votes buy an electoral vote, and how much
money the candidates raise and spend.... it then becomes purely a
microeconomic equation that any college freshman could figure out.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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