Voting in Red States, Voting in Blue States: Absentee Voting, Political Culture, and State-Level Electoral CompetitivenessCobetto, Joseph
’ to see the problem. There is more red than blue which suggests a win for the Republicans when the opposite was the case. The electoral college voting system means that a state will be mapped as either red or blue. Large states become visually dominant and while they might not contribute...
Used to describe an electoral system in which the candidate with the highest number of votes in each district wins, even if that person doesn’t gain a majority of votes cast. The system tends to favor the two big parties, Conservatives and Labour, which hi...
the state's residents proudly say, and that has been reliably true for gop performance there as well. the bright red splotch on the central south of the electoral map is like
You only have to look at the map and ask the question ‘who won the election?’ to see the problem. There is more red than blue which suggests a win for the Republicans when the opposite was the case. The electoral college voting system means that a sta...
Bush vs. Gore was among the tightest and most contentious races in US history. Amid recounts, litigation and a Supreme Court ruling on Florida’s decisive result (the state’s 25 Electoral College votes eventually carried Bush to victory), the election dragged out for over a month. Maps of...