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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > USPOL July: a foreign freaking power is trying to install a president
 
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Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

illcendiary posted:

I decided to investigate this for fun and invented a scenario as follows:

Candidate A wins all smallest states (by voting pop, not EV count) by smallest possible margin (1 vote) such that Candidate A has 270 EV
Candidate B wins all other states 100% to 0%

In that scenario, it's possible to win the presidency with just 24.5% of the popular vote in an obviously impossible situation. Might be more fun to apply some more realistic weightings to each state and see how low I can push the number.
If completely implausible situations are allowed, Candidate A can win with virtually 0% of the popular vote if those states only have one person vote.

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