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Tag: Romney

What if electoral votes were awarded proportionally?

November 16, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Congress, Courts, History, Ideas, Obama, Politics, States, Voting/Elections 5 comments

The record shows that President Barack Obama was reelected in 2012 by defeating Mitt Romney with 332 electoral votes to 206. Even though Obama

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Romney’s Project ORCA: Technology fails, shoe leather wins

November 13, 2012 Nicole Lopez 2012 Election, Campaigns, Romney, Technology, Voting/Elections 2 comments

When my friend who worked in the Obama campaign’s analytics department told me about Project ORCA, I thought he was talking about an environmental

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