Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Ever figure out how these elections invariably end up to close?

What are odds of that? That old saw about ';divide and conquor'; comes to mind but, but what does a camel know. Still, too many coincidences makes me wonder. It might be important, eh?Ever figure out how these elections invariably end up to close?
OK, so what's your theory, Oh wise one?Ever figure out how these elections invariably end up to close?
Another conspiracy theory as I suspected, but thanks for the best answer anyway. Report Abuse

A number of factors. Ethnic groups, gender, age groups all support one party over the other. For example, McCain will win the vets and senior vote, Obama the youth vote, Obama will win Hispanics, McCain whites, etc. Then ususally the bases of the party are about eqwual and then it comes down to how the independents vote.
I think it's because 40% of the population always votes Democrat and another 40% always votes Republican. So, it's really only 20% of the population that is up for grabs. Even if one candidate gets a whopping 70% of those folks, that would still only give them a 54% - 46% victory, in the popular vote which is about as big as the margin can ever get.
The people at the top tell the local districts how many votes they need and that is how many votes they come up with.





Funny how that happens.
The media mostly.

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