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The number of electoral college votes are based on decennial censuses, therefore some of the figures must already be outdated. Is there any obvious state returning either too many or too few electoral college members as compared to their actual share of the population?

I guess that Canadians must have always considered Vancouver as an extremely remote city but once the world economic power shifts to the Pacific-rim region the very concept of remoteness will have to be redefined.

There is the legislative elction in one month's time and if his party can not get a majority of the seats he becomes a lame-duck President within one month since the start of his term as President.

I wonder how long can those two guys, Putin and Medvedev, make fun of the Russian people all by the two of themselves.

I'm glad that Hollande won. I think the German solution to the financial crisis is far too strict and the pact should be renegotiated.

That Golden Dawn is a rather disturbing bunch of people. They are throwing all immigrants out and would place land-mines in the border against Turkey. However, speaking of immigrants, given the mess the Greek are in I don't think there is a long queue of people wanting to come to Greece except as a transit country to move elsewhere in Europe.

Vancouver, without any doubt.

This is a happy night; That arrogant sarkozy will be booted out of office by his nation.

That will never happen! Never ever!

I'm glad that old bigot is finished.

How does one measure happiness anyway?

I guess you're right but most people who support Ron Paul don't do so in order to boost a protest candidate but because they genuinely want him to win.

I would have thought it is the other way round; People use the provincial elections as an opportunity to protest against unpopular federal governments.

I must say that the president of Argentina is really hot and to think she is 58 years old!

At this point in time opinion-polls have little more than entertainment-value. Not very likely in Canada that there would be an early election.

I think this obsession some people have with Ron Paul has clearly gone out of any sensible lengths. He just isn't good enough to garner support and that's it.

However, Hollande will win, no doubt about it.

In some parts of the US after they have asked where you are from they are likely to ask what is your religion and answering to them that you have no religion at all is not an answer they like to hear.

I can't believe that some people actually take these kind of humbug surveys seriously.

We here in Europe have the 26-week rule regarding abortions. I wonder whether such a rule is in force in the liberal US states.

I guess these conversations about the break-up of Canada must be very popular in your country especially when most people realize it will never happen in real life but toying with the idea and drawing imaginary borders must be fun.

Thanks, that was interesting! So, it really goes straight to the House of Representatives if none of the candidates gets a majority of the electoral college votes but the representatives from various states vote in block so that al the votes of the representatives from a particular state go to the candidate they support.

If a third party-candidate wins some states and therefore gets those electoral college votes so much that none of the candidates has a majority, how does it go then in the elction of the president? Those delegates don't even convene in one place but all in their respective state-capitals. I know the last resort is that the House of Representatives elects the President but surely it doesn't go to that straight away if none of the candidates gets that 270 college votes.

I think the main-reason Bush lost the 1992 election was because many of his natural voters turned to Ross Perot.

I'm disappointed, the title of the thread made me expect another Downfall-clip. They are always very hilarious and witty.