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
Right, it's the whole "The enemy's gate is down" thing game designers and players tend to be attracted to -- one clearly defined prize and everything else is just details on the way to getting it Like chess being scored only by checkmating the king and not on "points"
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Yeah. Allowing someone to win via more skillful deployment of their outnumbered pieces is cool game design and a failure of democracy.
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Nate Silver even said a really cringey and obnoxious thing about this, that the WTA system of EVs for states makes his job as a pollster both more interesting and easier to resolve And that a pure popular vote system would be both more boring and more work
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