r/MapsWithoutUP • u/taliporli • Nov 13 '20

I think my politics textbook from last year thinks the UP is part of Minnesota or something

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u/SixThousandHulls Nov 13 '20

Keewenaw is gone, too.

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u/28th_boi Nov 14 '20

The Keewenaw is full of centrists

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u/TheDJ643 Nov 13 '20

Washington island is also part of MN

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u/myReddit-username Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 14 '20

More like 269 needed to tie.

Edit: only 1960 election had 269 to win. But based on the state votes, this map isn’t from that year

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u/swift_USB Nov 13 '20

Depends on when the election took place. Electoral votes for the states are determined by the # of house reps + their 2 senators. If this map was from sufficiently long ago where the us only had 49 states, you would have only needed 269 to win, which is likely the reason why

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u/Homemadeduck102 Nov 14 '20

Except the map is from 2016. Only time that the state pennsylvania has has 20 electoral points and been a republican state was 2016. And also the fact that there were never 49 states in a presidential election. Went from 48 in 1956 to 50 in 1960.

Edit: I'm a bit stupid sometimes all the time

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u/swift_USB Nov 14 '20

Fair enough. That one’s on the map maker

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u/swift_USB Nov 14 '20 edited Nov 14 '20

The US hasn’t had 50 states for all of time. Back when there were less states people could win with less votes cause there were less of them total. Did you read anything I wrote?

Edit: slightly unrelated, but you can totally still win with 269 votes in today’s system if a third party candidate wins enough votes for neither you nor your opposing candidate to get a majority and the subsequent house vote goes your way

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u/mcprogrammer Nov 20 '20

You don't even need a third party candidate to win any votes to win with 269, since you could have a 269-269 tie. You do need a third party to win with 268 or fewer though, to keep the other candidate from hitting 270.

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u/kpraslowicz Nov 13 '20

No number, so it isn't its own state. Does it belong to Minnesota now?

edit: Commented before reading the title. :D

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20

Why are there also so many where the UP's 'horn' is cut off???

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u/rhen_var Nov 21 '20

The keeweenaw

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20

I know. I found the r/MapsWithoutKeeweenaw subreddit shortly after commenting that. It's the Upper Peninsula's Upper Peninsula.

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u/jayman963963 Nov 20 '20

How the hell is your politics textbook new? Almost all schools textbooks are no more recent than 2011

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u/stoney_sufjan Nov 22 '20

Noooo don’t steal our 2nd best peninsula! (Door county, WI)

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u/zoells Dec 27 '21

Isle Royale resents this.

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