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Yeah.

And we have it easy compared to western Canada.

If you win a state by one vote (offer not valid in Nebraska and Maine), you get all that state's electoral votes.

I'm going to pile on to your good answer.

Since you only need 51% to win all of a state's electoral votes, any additional votes beyond 51% could be considered excess votes that are not helpful. The system rewards candidates whose supporters are spread around, and punishes candidates whose supporters are heavily concentrated in a handful of states.

For example, in 2016 Hilary Clinton got 4,269,978 more votes in California than Trump. That's 4,269,977 more than she needed to win the state. Meanwhile, she lost Michigan by 10,704 votes, lost Pennsylvania by 44,292 votes, lost Florida by 112,912, etc. Hell, she lost Texas by less than a million votes. If Hilary's supporters in California had been spread around in other states she would have won the national election easily.

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Instead of one central Reddit, imagine hundreds of mini-Reddits each with their own users, communities, rules, culture, etc. Now connect them all together so the users on each mini-Reddit can read/post/comment on any of the others. That basically how this works; each Lemmy instance is a mini-Reddit in a sea of peers.

There are so many politics communities, but before you mentioned this I didn't realize how concentrated they are on .ml and .world. These look like the most-subscribed USA and World politics communities that aren't on .ml or .world:

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[Edit: Though I listed them here, the hexbear and beehaw communities are not accessible to large swaths of the Lemmy user base due to instance defederations.]

The community was removed from lemmy.ml by their admins. Here's the reason in the modlog:

Unmoderated duplicate of /c/usa . Any world-related can use /c/worldnews

W must have slept in a Holiday Inn Express the night before.

No gun, no problem. If you are wearing shoes you always have options.

For those who don't get the joke here, it's a professional wrestler named Kamala:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_(wrestler)

Supposedly this is at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth, Massachusettes. I would not be surprised at all if it's real; having a Dunkin' Donuts in the hospital would totally track for Massachusetts.

Give me streetcars, give me subways, give me walkable neighborhoods and bicycle paths, but you can keep your buses.