Talk:Bellwether
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Could we have a list of classic Bellwether constituencies please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.11.251.100 (talk • contribs) 19:47, 25 May 2006
[edit] Bellwethers in 2000
In 2000, Delaware did vote for the candidate who received the most votes from voters, so in that sense it was an accurate bellwether for total votes in the country. A bellwether can be for which candidate receives the most actual votes from voters, not just which candidate received the most electoral votes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nightkey (talk • contribs) 22:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC).
- But the popular vote doesn't actually mean anything in such systems. And this is particular crucial as in most elections decided on a constituency basis bellweather seats/states are heavily targetted precisely because of their marginality, and thus are where the winner is made or lost. Timrollpickering (talk) 19:10, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Plagiarism
This is a copy and paste job from Encyclopedia.com
- I think you may have it backwards, and Encyclopedia.com took its entry from here. I know that some parts of the article are original, since I wrote them myself, from scratch. Can you identify which parts of this article you think may be a copyright violation? Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) (talk / cont) 22:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Remove Delaware
- Delaware use to be a bellwether state, but it's failed two in a row, it's no longer a bellwhether —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.177.140.37 (talk) 12:54, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
