Electoral College
The number of electoral votes necessary to win the US presidential race
What is 270?
Kentucky has 8 electoral votes and a population of 4.526 million. Ohio has 17 electoral votes and a population of 11.79 million. Of the two states, this one has the greatest voting power
What is Kentucky?
This is the practice of drawing electoral districts to consolidate the population of a community or constituency into a smaller number of districts
What is packing?
Polya assumed that the total number of votes cast in a state is proportional to this
What is the number of US representatives in the state?
A comparison of one quantity to another
What is a ratio?
The method used to assign seats in the House of Representatives
What is the Method of Equal Proportions?
In the 2000 US presidential election, George Bush won the state of Florida by this number of votes
This measure of compactness is the ratio of the area of a district to the area of a circle with the same perimeter
What is the Polsby-Popper score?
Polya assumed that there are this many presidential candidates
What is 2?
If you divide the total number of votes Clinton got in Texas (3,877,868) by the total number of votes Trump got in Texas (4,685,047), you get 82.77%. This means that ________________ got 82.77% of the votes that _________________ received.
What is Clinton got 82.77% of the votes that Trump received?
The current number of seats in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
Consider an election where Archimedes wins an election over Pythagoras by just 699 votes. What is the smallest number of voters that would need to switch their votes from Pythagoras to Archimedes in order for Pythagoras to win?
What is 350?
This measurement of gerrymandering aims to summarize the effect of gerrymandering by identifying all of the wasted votes in victory and defeat for both parties
What is the efficiency gap?
Polya assumed that any state gives all of its electoral votes to the candidate that obtains this
What is the majority of the popular vote in the state?
What is A=pi*r^2?
The number of electoral votes that Ross Perot received in the 1992 presidential race
What is 0?
There were 10 faithless electors in this recent US presidential election.
What is the 2016 Trump vs Clinton election?
This measure of compactness is the ratio of the area of a district to the area of the smallest possible circle that surrounds the district
What is the Reock score?
Using data from 1961, Polya found that a little over this percentage of the popular vote could elect the US president
What is 22%?
A figure for which you can pick any two points on or in the figure, connect them with a line segment, and the segment will stay inside the figure
What is convex?
The rule that specifies that all of the electors from each state (with a couple of exceptions) will vote in the Electoral College for the candidate who won a plurality of the popular votes cast in that state
What is the winner-take-all rule?
The two most recent US presidential elections in which the winner did not receive the majority of the popular vote
What are the 2000 (Bush/Gore) and 2016 (Trump/Clinton)?
This state has a ridiculously gerrymandered district that looks like Goofy kicking Donald Duck
What is Pennsylvania?
In Polya's work, the minimum value of the fraction of the popular vote that can elect the president comes from assuming that the winner carries s states, where this is true about the value of s
What is s is as big as possible?
Another word for the perimeter of a circle
Circumference