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[edit] Electoral picture peculiarity

Why is the graphic depiction of electoral votes skewed? Rarely nowadays does one see democratic votes colored red and and republican votes blue. --maru (talk) Contribs 20:51, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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— DLJessup (talk) 21:39, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] dirty trick? not

Was the Murchison letter a "dirty trick" no. American politicians are used to getting tricky questions, and quickly learn to finesse them. Diplomats surely are warned not to intervene in politics. Did it make a difference in voting? No--as Lee Benson showed long ago, the run romanism business did not change any votes either. The voting loyalties were very strong in those days. (See The Winning of the Midwest for explanation of that) Rjensen 23:49, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I just ordered your book from amazon.com after reading your above posting so that I can see that. Could you provide a citation to where Lee Benson showed that the “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion” business didn't change any votes?

— DLJessup (talk) 00:20, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

thanks! cite is Lee Benson, Research Problems in American Political Historiography, in Mirra Komarovsky, ed., Common Frontiers of the Social Sciences (1957), 124-68, Rjensen 00:36, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link legitimacy?

Is the "Center for Range Voting" a legit link to be used in this page? It's definitely slanted towards "range voting". 68.39.174.238 00:59, 2 January 2007 (UTC)