Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 25, 2010
Transcript:
Lucy: How are you going to get a publisher for an autobiography that's all about stuff that hasn't happened yet? Danae: Pfffft... are you kidding? Danae: my prescient autobiography is a publisher's dream! Lucy: How so? Danae: No need for fact-checking! Lucy: Oh. I'm getting a bad feeling about this... Danae: Why? Lucy: It... it's beginning to make sense to me... Danae: True genius often takes time to sink in.
One big advantage of the electoral college is to break down recounts into manageable parts.
Imagine if a presidential candidate needed to pick up 1000 or 5000 votes anywhere in the US? We could end up with a recount of every state!
Instead, we only had a recount in one contested state.