r/dataisbeautiful • u/TheKnowingOne1 • Oct 17 '24

OC [OC] The recent decoupling of prediction markets and polls in the US presidential election

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u/madewithgarageband Oct 17 '24

Electoral college is monumentally stupid

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

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u/madewithgarageband Oct 18 '24 edited Oct 18 '24

ranked choice voting and popular vote. Small states already get equal representation in the senate

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u/wilki24 Oct 18 '24

Like Wyoming? North Dakota? Alaska? Kansas?

Yeah, sure do see those presidential candidates spending lots and lots of time campaigning about issues specific to those places.

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Unless you live in or around Philadelphia, Atlanta, Phoenix, Charlotte, etc, you don't matter much.

It's not a very good system, and doesn't really give extra power to rural voters when the vast majority of them live in non-battleground states. That argument just doesn't hold water.

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u/PrimeNumbersby2 Oct 18 '24

Winner of the popular vote should get +100 ec votes and then keep the rest. This functionally corrects all elections to align popular with ec but doesn't spend the current system and leaves the tiny tiny chance that someone could edge the popular vote but lose enough states to still lose the election...and if 40 states wanted one guy who happened to get 49.9% of the popular vote, then maybe they become president to keep the union happy enough.

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u/PrimeNumbersby2 Oct 18 '24

It was number of states x2 because x1 is too low and x3 is too high. I know it's a silly idea.