Re: The Trouble With The Electoral College – Cities, Metro Areas, Elections and The United States
Discuss this video: http://reddit.com/r/cgpgrey The Trouble with The Electoral College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k How the Electoral College Works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Hello, internet. Let's talk about this map, this argument, and the Electoral College in general. In my “Trouble With The Electoral College” video from 2011, I was wrong to use the city limits for that part of the argument, rather than the more expansive metro area. The lawyerish nerd inside of me still wants to argue “technically correct” on that one. I used the city boundaries because the metro areas are often vague and absurdly large: the New York City metro area is 6700+ mi² over four states, and from where I partly grew up, it seemed that a lot of that area had nothing to do with New York City proper. So, at the time, I disregarded the metro boundaries. But using the strict city boundaries in that video was the wrong decision in ...
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Hello, internet. Let's talk about this map, this argument, and the Electoral College in general. In my “Trouble With The Electoral College” video from 2011, I was wrong to use the city limits for that part of the argument, rather than the more expansive metro area. The lawyerish nerd inside of me still wants to argue “technically correct” on that one. I used the city boundaries because the metro areas are often vague and absurdly large: the New York City metro area is 6700+ mi² over four states, and from where I partly grew up, it seemed that a lot of that area had nothing to do with New York City proper. So, at the time, I disregarded the metro boundaries. But using the strict city boundaries in that video was the wrong decision in ...
