Comments on: Republican Electoral Math http://rightsfield.com/2006/12/27/republican-electoral-math/ Holding Our Noses So You Don't Have To Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:35:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Matt Browner Hamlin http://rightsfield.com/2006/12/27/republican-electoral-math/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Matt Browner Hamlin Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:52:06 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2006/12/27/republican-electoral-math/#comment-71 Dayton's Giuliani spoiler theory sounds interesting in a Democrats in '72 or Democrats on The West Wing kind of way. I guess I'd like to see more polls from Rust Belt states showing Giuliani with enough of a lead to play out him scoring major delegates. Dayton's premise is that there are a number of winner-take-all states that Giuliani could win and that strong showings in some other moderate-friendly states will put him in position to bargain his delegates for a VP spot. For the sake of simplicity - and because this could conceivably be gamed out for other candidates in other regions - we should call this the <b>2 + 3 > 1 Theory</b>. Dayton’s Giuliani spoiler theory sounds interesting in a Democrats in ‘72 or Democrats on The West Wing kind of way.

I guess I’d like to see more polls from Rust Belt states showing Giuliani with enough of a lead to play out him scoring major delegates. Dayton’s premise is that there are a number of winner-take-all states that Giuliani could win and that strong showings in some other moderate-friendly states will put him in position to bargain his delegates for a VP spot.

For the sake of simplicity – and because this could conceivably be gamed out for other candidates in other regions – we should call this the 2 + 3 > 1 Theory.

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