Thursday, November 10, 2016

The Electoral College as a tennis match

Our Electoral College system explained -- it's like tennis

  • Our electoral college system is roughly similar to the scoring system in Tennis... In tennis, you only have to be the first to win 6 games (by two) to win a set. You can lose some games without scoring a point. And win others by just one point more than your opponent... You may win more close games and win the match, while the opponent wins more points...
  • One common tennis strategy is in the games you lose, you work just hard enough to make your opposition sweat and use up energy while saving your best efforts for the must win games.
  • The reality in Tennis as well as Presidential electoral politics is you have to win the tough games... It doesn't matter who won the most points, only who won the most games...
  • Same applies to the electoral college. To win the Presidency, you have to win the tough states. What happens in the other states doesn't matter. You focus your energy on the states you must win...
  • In the 2016 election, the Ocrats and left wing media spent way too much energy and focus preaching to their choir in the big city turf while continuing to ignore the folks in 'flyover country'. This also basically describes how they've bullied/governed for the past eight years... 
  • Trump focused his energies on the folks in the fly over country the Ocrats and media have ignored, and won... Go figure...