How’d they come up with 29? If you don’t like the Electoral College just eliminate it and go with the popular vote (I wouldn’t do that myself). What kind of bizarre bs is this?
Same number of electoral votes as Florida. Coincidence?
Probably because their projections indicate a 296-242 Romney win and they want to hedge their bets.
It would have been enough to turn Bush - Gore into a "mandate" for Gore. It is also the number of electoral votes of Florida.
Actually there is a good argument for popular vote vs electoral college. Under the EC system, eleven battleground states get the most attention because they are swing states. The rest are ignored because one party dominates it. In states where one party dominates by 10 or more, very little effort or campaigning occurs. Rather the dominant states are used as fund raising sources to fight in the 11 swing states. One way is to decide delegates by Congressional districts like Maine and Nebraska. Win that district, you win the delegates.
It looks to me like the Democrats believe they will come up 28 votes short after election day. Great news.
“How’d they come up with 29?”
Actually, that’s very logical.
That would give each state 1/2 a vote.