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Voting margins are around 3%. Population around 3M. Thus Nevada only needs an influx of about 90,000 nuclear-friendly gentry to make a huge change to the future
by manicdee 7y ago
Voting margins are around 3%. Population around 3M. Thus Nevada only needs an influx of about 90,000 nuclear-friendly gentry to make a huge change to the future of nuclear power in the world.
- jessaustin 7y agoKeep in mind, voter turnout was 1.1M in 2016, and that was considered very high. In most years the margin you're talking about could be much smaller.
- manicdee 7y agoHonestly I doubt we’d find 500 people who thought nuclear power was important enough a hill to die on that they’d move to Nevada to ensure its future (and I sometimes wonder whether the majority of pro-nuclear experts can be bothered to get out of their armchairs and vote in the first place). A better option would be to move to Australia and campaign for a nuclear waste dump here. The voting margins are lower (often measured in low triple digit votes) and the politicians are more cheaply bought. Those same 500 proponents could more easily effect change in Australia than any state of the USA.