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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/11/2024 7:53 AM, Kristofer
Munsterhjelm wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:88a52a87-605d-0c3c-6a24-198b8232b7e7@t-online.de">For
what it's worth, this paper argues that the Condorcet loser in
2016 was Trump and, while the error margins are greater, the
winner might have been Gary Johnson.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/G2XRIJW6VSQA9PHDGSRC/full"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/G2XRIJW6VSQA9PHDGSRC/full</a></blockquote>
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[KB] Thank you for the link.<br>
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Early in the article, the authors wrote, "We demonstrate that the
current electoral system for American presidents can, and in 2016
possibly did, select the least-preferred of a set of four
candidates." This suggests to me that the article is in a
different universe than we are. It's interesting but it's
irrelevant to election reform.<br>
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We all know that the "current electoral system" in the U.S.
ignores the national popular vote totals for President. The
President is "elected" by the so-called Electoral College (EC)
rules in the U.S. Constitution, state by state. I suspect we all
know that those rules are skewed toward small-population states
via counting the number of senators (2) for each state, a number
established by a kind of 18th century gerrymandering at the
Constitutional Convention.<br>
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I fail to see the non-academic relevance to the real world of
deeply analyzing the national popular vote. Some could argue that
this article adds weight to arguments against the electoral
College -- as if any is needed. But realistically the possibility
of amending the Constitution to change or get rid of the EC is
zero.<br>
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Thanks again for posting the link. The only workaround I've seen
with a chance of obviating the EC is the National Popular Vote
Interstate Compact. (<a
href="https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation</a>)
But that's a topic for a different discussion list.<br>
- Ken Bearman, Minneapolis MN</font><br>
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