• @grue
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    6 days ago

    By that logic, every state is a purple state and the classification isn’t useful anymore.

    Instead, the criteria that actually matters is the degree of uncertainty about which side of the 50% mark it’ll fall on in any given election. Florida is no longer all that uncertain.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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      46 days ago

      Considering every state to be a purple state would probably be good for Americans as a whole.

      • @grue
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        66 days ago

        So would ending the first-past-the-post voting system, which is what amplifies marginal changes in public sentiment to extreme changes in government policy in the first place.

          • d00phy
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            35 days ago

            Maybe slightly worse than the Electoral College.