tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post9102415370756373063..comments2023-11-05T03:45:25.001-08:00Comments on God Plays Dice: Politics and winding numbersMichael Lugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15671307315028242949noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-12582246528172640162008-02-23T19:28:00.000-08:002008-02-23T19:28:00.000-08:00The Republicans, from the start and continuing to ...The Republicans, from the start and continuing to the present, have been based on the following two principles:<BR/><BR/>1. Big business is America's persecuted minority and deserves an affirmative action program.<BR/><BR/>2. Single-issue voters should always be taken seriously if they don't interfere too much with big business. This applied to anti-slavery voters, anti-alcohol voters, anti-abortion voters, etc.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes they might decide that there are more voters on one side of a single issue than the other and swing from one extreme to the other. For example, John McCain appears to be betting that there are more open-borders single-issue voters than closed-borders voters.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720409839023747889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-56539021895943884842008-02-22T07:10:00.000-08:002008-02-22T07:10:00.000-08:00I don't think that it would be that silly. It mig...I don't think that it would be that silly. It might be fun to plot the trajectories of each state through each election. It's not a quantitative result, but topology isn't quantitative, and it would be fun to see.<BR/><BR/>Plus, if the result is interesting, you can ask yourself renormalization questions. If this happens on a macro-scale, does it happen on a micro-scale, and to what extent.<BR/><BR/>Still, not quantitative, but you can use your intuition about numbers, and ordering to see if you can get close.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com