Dems won the WH, but pubs won the house

Fluttershy said:
Whoops, there are 19 numbers in the Republican column and 18 in the Democratic won. Looks like the Republicans didn't actually lead after all.
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You have 91,887 twice. If the rest is right, it looks like the Democrats received about 67,000 more votes.
 
I suppose I could edit that, but it might just confuse things even more. Here's the revised table:

Republicans:
39,128
31,466
160,238
179,340
172,042
183,647
201,434
199,283
165,858
176,267
163,733
172,020
91,887
74,888
165,629
154,337
102,754
209,263
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2,643,214

Democrats:
222,408
299,567
120,144
103,387
101,624
138,688
139,067
152,515
103,298
91,351
116,315
160,636
203,072
248,905
126,661
109,026
157,629
118,370
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2,712,663


So the Democrats lead by 69,449 out of 5,355,877, or about 1%, and the map represented that by giving the Republicans a huge 20% margin.
 
cannabis said:
if you click the link and look at all the districts, you can see the pubs won
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I know this may be a foreign concept to you yurt, but you can win in each individual district and not have a majority overall. I mean, obviously, you could produce a theoretical map with a result like this:


District 1: Party A: 100% Party B: 0%
District 2: Party A: 49.9% Party B: 50.1%
District 3: Party A: 49.9% Party B: 50.1%
District 4: Party A: 49.9% Party B: 50.1%

Party A won 3/5 of the votes and got 1/4 of the seats. That's the point of gerrymandering.
 
Fluttershy said:
I know this may be a foreign concept to you yurt, but you can win in each individual district and not have a majority overall. I mean, obviously, you could produce a theoretical map with a result like this:


District 1: Party A: 100% Party B: 0%
District 2: Party A: 49.9% Party B: 50.1%
District 3: Party A: 49.9% Party B: 50.1%
District 4: Party A: 49.9% Party B: 50.1%

Party A won 3/5 of the votes and got 1/4 of the seats. That's the point of gerrymandering.
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no, i was referring to the majority. i am not going to click on each district and paste them, my point was to get dung to click on the districts.
 
cannabis said:
kind of mixed results on the direction of the country
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True but patience will show you where it's going if they don't get stuff done. Curently Dems have the White House and the Senate. Repubs have the house and the federal Judiciary. Though the Judiciary isn't nearly as partisan as congress.
 
Dungheap said:
Well, your figures are lower for the Democrats than Watermark's. Watermark's are correct.


Also, too, the "total figures" from FOX should not result in fewer votes than CNN's "not complete" numbers.
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There are a few districts that haven't been completely counted. That could throw things off if, for instance, there's more districts that lean one way that haven't been counted than those that lean the other way. Regardless, the map is clearly gerrymandered somewhat.
 
Fluttershy said:
There are a few districts that haven't been completely counted. That could throw things off if, for instance, there's more districts that lean one way that haven't been counted than those that lean the other way. Regardless, the map is clearly gerrymandered somewhat.
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it is gerrymandered somewhat. what would be your suggestion for the heavily populated areas that are mostly dem? increase their geographic size? pubs would still get the majority in PA.
 
cannabis said:
it is gerrymandered somewhat. what would be your suggestion for the heavily populated areas that are mostly dem? increase their geographic size? pubs would still get the majority in PA.
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Create more mixed suburban/rural and urban/suburban districts. You could also create districts that are more purely rural, to balance out the purely urban districts.
 
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