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Moreover, Mr Portman comes from the vital swing state of Ohio, and veepologists in the media pay extravagant attention to electoral geography.
ECONOMIST: Lexington
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Thanks to the vagaries of electoral geography, in recent elections Labour MPs have required many fewer votes to win, on average, than Conservative candidates.
ECONOMIST: Voting reform
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Moreover, Scotland's electoral geography means that Labour, unlike other parties, cannot use the introduction of proportional representation to even up the numbers of each sex.
ECONOMIST: Scottish politics