Talk:Selectorate theory

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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cartersapphire. Peer reviewers: Cmpowell.

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Improving the page
Let's talk about how to do it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.5.172.254 (talk) 15:23, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Sapphire :)

I just reviewed your edits to the Selectorate Theory wikipage. WOW. I love it.

I like that you included your edits in the beginning, I think that is a good intro as I read through the rest of the wikipage. Good placement.

I like that at the end you referenced Mesquita and kept pretty solid with not including any sort of opinion or personal statements. It was kept factual and I think it is solid and will not get removed, woohoo! :)

My one recommendation would be to maybe give other examples aside from just the U.S. (not a biggy- I just like to be worldly, lol). The other recommendation would have been to make the paranthetical statement that you included after interchangeable/real selectorate/winning coalition as its own sentence just for a more organized sentence structure- again no biggy, I think it looks great.

Also, I think that you had tried to add a footnote at the end of your second body "(for example, in an American presidential election, those voters that give a candidate 270 electoral votes).[4]" it did not highlight to direct the reader to the reference, maybe something was added in wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.5.172.254 (talk) 15:24, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Not very clear moment
At a given point you say:

(for example, in an American presidential election, those voters that get a candidate to 270 Electoral College votes or campaign funding entities which procure electoral college votes)

Maybe it is my english that is not good enough, but I can't see what does "get a candidate to 270 Electoral college votes". Can someone rephrase it, at least here, so that I understand, please? Could it be that there is a missing word?

Thank you

ThePrestigious (talk) 15:17, 3 November 2020 (UTC)