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Re: Exhaustion 2012

[brightblueink]

Yeah, long story short, since Colorado (where I live) is split between Democrats and Republican, votes "matter" here more than they would in...say...California (which is very Democrat) or Texas (which is very Republican) due to the electoral college.

It doesn't make much since to Americans, either.

Re: Exhaustion 2012

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Ohhh. This video made it clearer. You guys count your votes by state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok_VQ8I7g6I

So, is it sort of like... the candidates in those "swinging" states have to campaign more because their campaign is more likely to influence people's votes, whereas in non-swinging states they sort of try but tend to go, "Yeah, whatever, we're not likely to win in this state anyway"? Makes a bit more sense now.

Here (Aust) afaik they count every single person's vote across the whole country. So if you have, I don't know, 8 million people voting for the ALP, 10 million for the Coalition, and the rest for Greens/Independents/writing something stupid on their ballot card so their vote doesn't count, then the Coalition wins. In a federal election, the state or territory you live in is immaterial.

Re: Exhaustion 2012

[brightblueink]

Yep, that's about right! A lot of people have been talking about going more with the popular vote, like Australia, but I'm not sure if that's likely to happen any time soon. Either way it means candidates for President that aren't in the two main parties are pretty much screwed.

Re: Exhaustion 2012

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I'll never forget the territory election in canberra a few years back where everyone thought labour would win, only for the greens to win. It was hilarious watching both labours and liberals suddenly be all "hey greens we're BFFs pls be my friend mutual follow help"

...then gay marriage was put forward, the ACT approved it and...Rudd stepped in and took it away. oh made myself sad.

Everytime a state/territory puts it forward and people vote yes, word comes down from on high to go "no" :(

Re: Exhaustion 2012

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

D: Yeah, there've been bills back and forth in various states (idk, I don't keep track of all these political maneouvres, but I'm waiting for the big bold headline that says 'GAY MARRIAGE APPROVED NATIONWIDE').