{"id":433,"date":"2004-09-24T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/maine-can-split-electoral-votes-revised\/"},"modified":"2004-09-24T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T22:15:46","slug":"maine-can-split-electoral-votes-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/maine-can-split-electoral-votes-revised\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Can Split Electoral Votes (revised)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsday.com – Election 2004<\/a><\/p>\n

Unlike other states, Maine can split its electoral votes. The candidate who wins a plurality gets two of Maine’s electoral votes; the other two are given to the winner in each congressional district. A candidate who loses the statewide vote could still pick up one electoral vote, and analysts have suggested that more rural and conservative northern Maine, including Bangor, could go for Bush.<\/p>\n

Remember that Colorado may become the second<\/strike> third<\/em> (see below) state to divide electoral votes. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

mjh’s Blog: Very Interesting Electoral Development<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:<\/p>\n

Mark –<\/p>\n

Nebraska also does the weird-ass proportional thing with its electoral
\ncollege votes. (Actually, the rest of us are weird-ass, and Nebraska
\nand Maine are the ones that are doing something that sorta makes more
\nsense?)<\/p>\n

Cheers,
\nJohn Fleck<\/p>\n

[Thanks, John.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsday.com – Election 2004 Unlike other states, Maine can split its electoral votes. The candidate who wins a plurality gets two of Maine’s electoral votes; the other two are given to the winner in each congressional district. A candidate who loses the statewide vote could still pick up one electoral vote, and analysts have suggested … Continue reading Maine Can Split Electoral Votes (revised)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}