presidental campaighn

[Anarchist Freedom]

i do not understand the signifigance of new hampshire compared to michigan its like iowa and everyone is all excited but then comes like ohio and were like fuck this i didnt even know the caucases came to michigan they prolly didnt even step foot in michigan.. why do they give one state alot of attention but then the other complete disregard?


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[redstar2000]

Imagine watching a game in a sport you'd never seen before...everything would be pretty confusing because you wouldn't know the rules or the strategies of the game.

Bourgeois politics is like that...you have to do quite a bit of studying before it starts to "make sense" -- even in their own terms.

But it helps to remember that it's a game --a form of entertainment not to be taken seriously.

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[Funky Monk]

New Hampshire is historically the first primary, essentially a proving ground for potential presidents and the winner is a good indication of who will go on to win the nomination. I cant remember the exact statistics but something like 7 of the last 10 Democratic nominations have won New Hampshire and all of the last 10 Republican candidates.

[Anarchist Freedom]

thanx RS2k that helped me alot


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[Saint-Just]

Maybe New Hampshire has more seats in the electoral college; its one of the big states, like Florida or California.

Socialist Freedom, the greater the population of one state the more important it is to win. Each state accounts for a certain number of votes towards an electoral college. The bigger the state, the more votes it accounts for. If a candidate is able to win a big state he will have more votes than if he had won in a smaller state.

Since the votes you gain in this electoral college are not actually related to how many votes you got, but rather how many people there were (whether they voted or not) in the state you won in; you can win the election even though you may have got less individual votes (at the base level of each citisens vote) than another candidate.

I think thats how it works anyway.