Assume that 50,000,000 votes are cast in the next U.S. presidential election.
What is the smallest number of these votes that a candidate could receive and still be elected president?
[Your answer need not be probable, but it should have at least one chance in 1,000,000 of actually happening.]
Without going into what the breakdown of the electoral college is:
Assume half the electoral college is controlled by 25,000,000 popular votes, and it's ok to lose almost half the electoral college. Losing 124,499,999 votes is ok.
But the candidate needs only a majority in the states controlling just over half the electoral votes. If these are big states, the candidate needs only 1 extra in each of less than half these states. So 12,250,000 plus a small number equal to the number of large states necessary, would do the job.
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Posted by Charlie
on 2024-03-17 09:03:14 |
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