Friday, May 4, 2007

Addendum

I have to put this up under a new post because I don’t want to go through all the trouble of formatting all the tables in the previous one, I’m lazy, it’s a character flaw. How I came up with the worth of states in comparison to that of Florida was this: I took every state’s population and divided it by its electoral votes. I saw that Florida had the largest number of people to each of its votes, so I chose to use that as a baseline. Taking the number of people per electoral vote for each state, I used that number to divide that of Florida’s to come up with how many times that of Florida it is worth. The only thing special about my choice as a baseline is that it allowed every state to have a number greater than 1.

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