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Re: Exhaustion 2012

[(Anonymous)]

It's because of the electoral college thingy. All states have a certain number of "electoral votes" based on population. Who wins the election is based not on who gets the straight-up majority of individual votes cast, but on the majority of electoral votes.

In all but two states, all of a state's electoral votes go to the candidate who wins the state-wide popular vote, i.e. "winner take all."

So one or more "swing states" - those where voters appear to be evenly split between parties, could wind up deciding the election because a win by a narrow margin in one state means ALL of that state's electoral votes go towards one candidate.

That's why a vote in a swing state is considered to "matter" more than in a state that usually votes with a clear majority one way or the other, and why candidates pour so much energy into campaigning in swing states and trying to appeal to undecided voters.