Statistics: Posted by SpiffCoug — Sat Nov 12, 2016 11:47 am
Statistics: Posted by BOID — Fri Nov 11, 2016 8:55 pm
I've really come to appreciate the electoral college. California has nearly 50M people. If they had all voted Hillary, California still only gets 55 votes. It provides each individual and state to have its say in the election.Agreed. To quote the famous philosopher, dem da berries. I hope you aren't thinking I'm whining. I wasn't and I'm not. It is not the norm though for the President elect not to earn the most votes. It happened here though.Unfortunately for Hillary and those still struggling to cope w/ Trump losing the popular vote but winning the electoral college, they don't understand how our system works.
Here's an analogy. Elections are like a football game. The popular vote is passing efficiency rating. The electoral college is points scored.
You can have a PER as high as you want, and while it is important, it's still not as important as points scored. Yes, there is a high correlation between a high PER (popular vote) and points scored (electoral college), but you can still win games with a low PER and you can lose games with a high PER.
Whining about winning the PER battle and somehow claiming that was the more important metric than points scored, makes a bitter SpiffCoug on Cougar Corner.
Statistics: Posted by BoiseBYU — Fri Nov 11, 2016 12:42 am
Agreed. To quote the famous philosopher, dem da berries. I hope you aren't thinking I'm whining. I wasn't and I'm not. It is not the norm though for the President elect not to earn the most votes. It happened here though.Unfortunately for Hillary and those still struggling to cope w/ Trump losing the popular vote but winning the electoral college, they don't understand how our system works.
Here's an analogy. Elections are like a football game. The popular vote is passing efficiency rating. The electoral college is points scored.
You can have a PER as high as you want, and while it is important, it's still not as important as points scored. Yes, there is a high correlation between a high PER (popular vote) and points scored (electoral college), but you can still win games with a low PER and you can lose games with a high PER.
Whining about winning the PER battle and somehow claiming that was the more important metric than points scored, makes a bitter SpiffCoug on Cougar Corner.
Statistics: Posted by BroncoBot — Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:37 pm
Statistics: Posted by StatsCougar — Wed Nov 09, 2016 11:01 pm
Statistics: Posted by BoiseBYU — Wed Nov 09, 2016 9:03 pm
Statistics: Posted by SpiffCoug — Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:49 pm