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Originally Posted by GermanDunk
But aren´t such charts completely irrelevat, because the goal is to win a state ? When one candidate wins 51 % in CO 49 % of the other votes are worth zero ?
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Exactly right. Unlike the Primaries, each state is "winner take all," so you're right. These charts are useless. That is why Al Gore won the "populare vote" in 2000, but Bush won the election.
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