2026-09-01 17:51 UTC
Fedi is a one-room school house in the sense that the audience here has different levels of familiarity with the mechanics of US political election campaigns specifically and more broadly of election campaigns in general. I'm going to present this thread at a generalist level -- it will be too simple for some of you and too detailed for others. Sorry, that's how social media works. 3/n
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@ShaulaEvans@zirk.us 2026-09-01 17:52
In politics, you start with your vote goal for election day and work backwards. The official vote goal is 50% of the vote plus 1 vote -- that's a win margin. (In practice, the math gets more complicated, but that's good enough for this discussion.) Yes, there are other kinds of election systems -- I'm not discussing those in this thread, you are welcome to start your own thread about them. 4/n