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Thursday, December 1, 2016

US Presidential Elections since 2000: The winning margins

In United States presidential elections two votes matter. One is national popular vote which is the sum of all votes cast in every state and the District of Columbia. The second is the electoral college vote—the one that really matters—wherein each state has a number of electors proportionate to its population. The electoral college has 538 electors, and a candidate needs to win 270 electoral votes - half of the total plus one - to win the White House. 
 
 





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