Tuesday, October 31, 2006

One state, one vote

Another instance in a trail of electoral college ignorance on the right, this one from Powerline's "Deacon" --

John Kerry is now outdoing Al Gore when it comes to loser derangement syndrome. And Kerry doesn't even have the excuse of having almost won the presidency.

He's confusing the 2004 popular vote, which Bush did win decisively, with the 2004 electoral college vote, which Bush only won because he narrowly won Ohio -- by a margin of 118,599 votes. As people said at the time, if a football stadium's worth of people had switched their votes, John Kerry would be president.

UPDATE: This Brad DeLong post offers calculations that illuminate the distinction apparently lost on the right.

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