[viagradiscounttt]

Is this a trick question? My 1st inclination is a resounding "No".

[Clunlippibe]

If it's a Russian-supported candidate and I have a brain of a putinjugend, OF COURSE!

[paydayus]

Originally posted by DanS
... For instance, somebody might run unopposed and receive 96% of the vote. Why does this remind me of the first season Night Court episode where Dan Fielding runs for City Council and looses to the incumbent who died a few weeks prior to the election?

[AdobebePhoto]

Surely people can do better than 100 %

[steevyjeors]

Originally posted by BeBro
Surely people can do better than 100 % IIRC, LBJ won an election to the Senate where the total votes cast exceeded 100%. He didn't get all of them of course, just a majority.

[imporesweemo]

And senator, not governor.

[salomal-qask]

If it's a big election (national, or at least US state sized), gut instinct would be "no way" but I wouldn't totally rule it out. I'd certainly be skeptical.

A smaller election, like a town-level sort of thing, seems more plausible.

-Arrian

[quedry36]

Are we talking about Maxine Waters or Fidel Castro?

[EsAllCams]

I'd be surprised if the S. Ossetians got to vote. The idea that Georgia has a particularly strong claim to sovereignty over that province and Abkhazia is nonsense. Of course the Russians have a poor claim as well, but Saakishvili plays this game a hell of a lot worse than Putin and that's how the world rewards crappy players.

[RogHammon]

Electoral Votes 1984:

Reagan/Bush.......525.....97.6%
Mondale/Ferraro....13.......2.4%

Electoral Votes 1972:

Nixon/Agnew.......520.....96.8%
McGovern/Shriver..17.......3.2%

[Fluivelip]

Originally posted by Deity Dude
Electoral Votes 1984:

Reagan/Bush.......525.....97.6%
Mondale/Ferraro....13.......2.4%

Electoral Votes 1972:

Nixon/Agnew.......520.....96.8%
McGovern/Shriver..17.......3.2% Strictly speaking we're talking about percent of actual voters, not percent of electoral votes... they each had in the area of 60%, I believe.