I hate the board game with the winner-take-all states so much Every four years some nerd on CNN showing how the numbers swing wildly back and forth if a few thousand votes go one way or another in one state as opposed to just counting all the votes
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Every American political game is Monopoly
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See also: the stock market
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As a board game nerd, I assure you any game witch mechanics this fucked up would get dragged front, back, and center.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960:_The_Making_of_the_President … It was pretty ok actually.
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I had a law professor who always used to express something similar by saying that if your idea is so brilliant that only a brilliant lawyer would come up with it, it's probably a terrible idea
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The outcomes are bad, but the EC is just a variant of the classic area control mechanic--in this caser, bare majority gets the VP, losers get nothing--used by lots of very successful games, e.g. El Grande. The swinginess is a feature in a game, but an awful bug in an election.
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