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Post by sl on Nov 10, 2018 8:43:46 GMT 7
nice to see you sl, hope you are well, where are you off to on your travels this time? Been well thanks. I should have done a thread on our Philippines trip, but to tell you the truth it really wasn’t worth the effort. There was a lot of film/pictures but wasn’t worth putting it all together unless you’re a diver. You guys don’t dive. That’s all we did while in the Philippines. We’re both in the states for a short time and will do a couple trips within the states this trip, which aren’t any big deal. However, in Spring we’ll be doing about two weeks in Japan following the cherry blossoms. That one might be worth posting about/interesting (maybe 7 different cities) with some Japanese woman (met years ago) who will be traveling with us.
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Post by sl on Nov 10, 2018 8:52:47 GMT 7
If nothing else your vote will show the rest of the world we are not all bent. House vote: Democrats - 52,214,843 votes / Republicans - 47,808,433 votes……….Senate vote: Democrats - 46,193,609 votes / Republicans - 33,879,703 votes the majority of Americans would rather live with democrats in charge: elections.huffingtonpost.com/2018/results/hq Without context these figures don't have much value I think. Of course I don't know all details of the American voting system. On the same day the same voters voted for both House and Senate seats. All House seats (435) and some Senate (35 out of 100) were up for grabs. I would have expected that the Senate votes would be 'around' 35% of the House votes, but it more like 80%. Am I missing something here? Two things. Addressing you 80% figure. 1) Every state was voting for house congressional seats (a lot of voters came out to cast their vote) 2) Only some states voted for a senator See the map below from the link in my post. If every state was voting for a state senator at the same time voting for house seats the total numbers (Dem + Rep) would have been closer together (towards 100%). Closer together……..some people might not vote for a senator/house seat or might vote for another party, besides Dem or Rep.
Hope it helps?
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Post by rubl on Nov 10, 2018 11:59:38 GMT 7
Without context these figures don't have much value I think. Of course I don't know all details of the American voting system. On the same day the same voters voted for both House and Senate seats. All House seats (435) and some Senate (35 out of 100) were up for grabs. I would have expected that the Senate votes would be 'around' 35% of the House votes, but it more like 80%. Am I missing something here? Two things. Addressing you 80% figure. 1) Every state was voting for house congressional seats (a lot of voters came out to cast their vote) 2) Only some states voted for a senator See the map below from the link in my post. If every state was voting for a state senator at the same time voting for house seats the total numbers (Dem + Rep) would have been closer together (towards 100%). Closer together……..some people might not vote for a senator/house seat or might vote for another party, besides Dem or Rep.
Hope it helps?
Not really, but as i wrote I may have gotten the wrong ideas of how it works. I thought that if 35% of Senate seats are contested the same voters would also vote for House seats. As all House seats are contested that would give the 100% House votes I expected. Of course my assumption there is a rather proportional representation, that is every senate and every House seat equals the same number of votes. That's were I might have gone wrong.
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