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I mean, the swing states were known beforehand. A concerted effort to fix the elections there would decide the election, surely?
by vehementi 10y ago
I mean, the swing states were known beforehand. A concerted effort to fix the elections there would decide the election, surely?
- arcanus 10y ago> WI, MI, and PA Wisconsin was not considered to be a battleground state. HRC didn't even campaign in the state after the convention.
- tajen 10y agoI'm not an expert of swing/fling states, but FiveThirtyEight listed 22 states as potentially competitive; Trump also won 194 of the 207 counties that voted for Obama either in 2008 or 2012; and finally I count 8 states that shifted to Trump after voting Obama [1]. Therefore all hands are required to win an election, even for the first 49.9%, even if a few fling states make the difference at the end. Of course, although it's not possible to earn an election purely by fraud, it could still alter it. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/09/us/elections/states-shift.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/09/us/elections/s...