PT
Not quite. Two go to the statewide winner, and then one each for each of the two congressional districts.
And it looks like one of the congressional districts that was holding things back.
TVN posted:
Maine uses a proportional representation system. E.g. 75% of votes for Obama would give 3 votes in the college, and give McCain one (for 25%). If a certain threshold is crossed (I am not quite sure what this is), then 4 votes would go to Obama.
Not quite. Two go to the statewide winner, and then one each for each of the two congressional districts.
And it looks like one of the congressional districts that was holding things back.
NG
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Why are ITV bothering? Their opening was dire. The first package was on NBC News more than the election... It doesn't seem to have got much better - they don't seem to have many people on the ground in the US.
Ironic that Jeremy Vine is in a studio at ITN doing some pretty nice stuff (though the BBC virtual touch-screen suffers in comparison to CNN's - which is really telling great stories) - and ITV just looks a bit lacklustre.
Ironic that Jeremy Vine is in a studio at ITN doing some pretty nice stuff (though the BBC virtual touch-screen suffers in comparison to CNN's - which is really telling great stories) - and ITV just looks a bit lacklustre.
FA
They've been like that for all calls. I agree they could be party-coloured.
I like it, in a way it shows intelligence on the audiences part that they don't have to have them massively across the screen. I just hope that they do something similar with their main news graphics, they do look lovely.
dvboy posted:
Londoner posted:
Very understated breaking news graphics on ITV
They've been like that for all calls. I agree they could be party-coloured.
I like it, in a way it shows intelligence on the audiences part that they don't have to have them massively across the screen. I just hope that they do something similar with their main news graphics, they do look lovely.
TV
Not quite. Two go to the statewide winner, and then one each for each of the two congressional districts.
And it looks like one of the congressional districts that was holding things back.
That's sort of what I was trying to get at without complicating things further (you did it much more simply than I could have!).
It must have been one of the congressional districts, as three votes had gone to Obama, meaning he had been declared as the statewide winner.
Paul T posted:
TVN posted:
Maine uses a proportional representation system. E.g. 75% of votes for Obama would give 3 votes in the college, and give McCain one (for 25%). If a certain threshold is crossed (I am not quite sure what this is), then 4 votes would go to Obama.
Not quite. Two go to the statewide winner, and then one each for each of the two congressional districts.
And it looks like one of the congressional districts that was holding things back.
That's sort of what I was trying to get at without complicating things further (you did it much more simply than I could have!).
It must have been one of the congressional districts, as three votes had gone to Obama, meaning he had been declared as the statewide winner.