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Perfect Stranger Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Having a hard time understanding this table

Hello Fellow Users,

I'm reading a book on American political parties and elections and I'm having a hard time understanding this table and the sentences preceeding and following it. Could you please enlighten me? (Don't pay attention to the highlighted part, it's just for my own purposes)

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I think you forgot to post the content??

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I think you forgot to post the content??
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I don't know what happened... I posted the pictures but they didn't show up... Then when they finally showed up I had to edit the post to add one more picture... and for some reason the post disappeared... Let me try again <sigh>

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As far as I can tell, it is listing the various combinations of posts that voters may have to cast votes for, showing these in the order that they appear on the ballot paper ("most important" first). For example, in 2004 in New Hampshire, people had to vote for President, Governor, Senator(s) and Representative(s), who were listed in that order on the ballot paper. I don't understand the numbers t
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GPYAs far as I can tell, it is listing the various combinations of posts that voters may have to cast votes for, showing these in the order that they appear on the ballot paper ("most important" first). For example, in 2004 in New Hampshire, people had to vote for President, Governor, Senator(s) and Representative(s), who were listed in that order on the ballot paper. I d
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The numbers add up to 50, the number of sates in the USA, in presidential election years, because in those years, there is at least one election (the presidential election. In other years there are no elections in some states..
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fivejedjonThe numbers add up to 50, the number of sates in the USA, in presidential election years, because in those years, there is at least one election (the presidential election. In other years there are no elections in some states..
So the numbers are the numbers of states that had that particular combination of posts up for election in the given year?
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That's how I understand it.
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fivejedjonThat's how I understand it.
Oh, very good, I don't think I ever would have got that.
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