Electoral College Breakdown, Installment One

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[Krodg]

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[beaureguard]

Put me on ping list also!

Thanks

[So Cal Rocket]

Maine assigns their 4 electoral votes by giving 2 to the winner of the statewide popular vote, 1 to the winner of the vote in Congressional District 1, and 1 to the winner of Congressional District 2. IIRC, Bush was VERY close to Gore in District 2 in 2000.

It is a distinct possibility that Maine's electoral votes will be split this time: 3 to the Dems, 1 to Bush.

[chimera]

Thanks for the hard work. Very informative.

[KC_Conspirator]

I remember your work from 2000. You ought to consider selling your services, they are pretty darned good.

[CIApilot]

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[headsonpikes]

This is great stuff, Dales!

Put me on the ping list please, Neets.

[Tall_Texan]

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Does anyone have a chart that shows migration of electoral votes from 2000 to 2004? That would be helpful in tracking the EV contest since the last one was so close and I'm not expecting too many states to change.

[Wolfstar]

Dales, thank you VERY much for your superb work in helping to teach and inform us about polls, election trends, and related material. I look forward to your continued reports throughout this election season.

[scan58]

I would like to be on the ping list, too. Thanks.

[DallasMike]

Funny, I was thinking of you just this morning. Would you like me to make graphs for you like the last election? I have better tools than I did 4 years ago and we can do some neater things, like linking to webpages stored on my ISP's server. We can also do some data mining and analysis that we weren't able to do back in 2000.

[JohnnyZ]

It is a distinct possibility that Maine's electoral votes will be split this time: 3 to the Dems, 1 to Bush.

Or vice versa.

[nevergiveup]

Welcome back Dales, your work is much appreciated.

Neets, please add me to the ping list.

[Dales]

If you would like. I am actually in the middle of some development work on my own which should allow a lot more of the in-depth toying with data that we all enjoy so much. So in other words, I am pretty tied up with my own efforts, but anything you want to do that will bring more insight to folks I am all for!

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Suggestion here: Make the Republicans Red and the Democrats Blue. That is what the news services have been doing. It also is what was done in the last presidential election on a map that people stared at for long periods of time.

[scan58]

I was just going to reply that I was glad to see the Republicans *back* to the blue that I remember them being for so many years. RED is definitely more fitting of the dems.
My thoughts are the media stole blue from us in 2000.

[AuH2ORepublican]

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[GiveEmDubya]

I may (MAY) be going to college in Maine, so hopefully the GOP organizations up there aren't so anemic that they aren't willing to do some grassroots campaigning. Even if we push the 2nd district over the top, that's 1 electoral vote. Every little bit helps.

[Galatians513]

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[AuH2ORepublican]

I think it's too early to say Maine and New Mexico lean slightly to the Democrat candidate. I would put them both as toss-ups, although if I was forced to choose which way they leaned, I would say NM is a slight lean for Bush and Maine a slight lean to Kerry. At the end of the day, I don't think Kerry (who supported NAFTA, BTW) will be able to carry NM unless he picks Richardson as his running mate (and Richardson publicly has said no on several occasions), since Bush will increase his share of the Hispanic vote there and since this time there shouldn't be a snowstorm in the southern (and Republican) part of the state.