Comments on: FPTP is ugly

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:14:04 +0000

Makes sense if what we’re talking about are candidate-based electoral systems (and U.S. primaries decided by swing voters according to plurality rules). What’s sexy is memorable.

By: Fruits and Votes » Blog Archive » Electoral systems and beauty

Fruits and Votes » Blog Archive » Electoral systems and beauty — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:48:25 +0000

[…] Read all about it at The Sharpener (with thanks to MMVC for the tip, and for raising the question of whether this is “a good thing or a bad thing” ). Propagation: […]

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:43:16 +0000

Kerry did win. Take a look at this and you'll see why

By: Jonn

Jonn — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:19:49 +0000

Antipholus: Sorry, as much as I’d like it, I don’t see it.

In 2000 Bush
a) lost the popular vote, and
b) got a huge leg up from questionable activities in Florida

In 2004, while it was nothing like the sweeping mandate the Republicans would have us believe, I’ve yet to see convincing evidence that Kerry won either the popular or the electoral college vote.

By: Antipholus Papps

Antipholus Papps — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:01:02 +0000

Unfortunatey, this

a) predicted a Kerry victory,

But he did win.

By: Jonn

Jonn — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:05:55 +0000

I seem to remember there being something doing the rounds before the 2004 presidential election about how the candidate who could most closely trace his ancestry to the British royal family had won in almost every election on record.

Unfortunatey, this

a) predicted a Kerry victory,
b) sounds like complete bunk

Plus I can’t find it on google.

By: Larry Teabag

Larry Teabag — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:32:22 +0000

Interesting. I wonder if it applies to height as well as good looks. From Wikipedia: “the taller candidate [in the US presidential election] has won the popular vote in 63 percent of the cases for which we have data, and the shorter candidate only about 30 percent of them.”