# They're coming for us ... what will you do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 8, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-for-us-what-will-you-do/817507 "2018-07-08T02:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 117
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-for-us-what-will-you-do/817507/117 "2018-09-21T07:20:56Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Anyhow, just to help out **HD** , the standard benchmark is “share of two-party vote” where the numerator is the D or R vote, and the denominator is the D+R vote. The reason for this is that while the share of the vote earned by minor parties may vary from one election to another, _it doesn’t matter_ in our system, and specifically has no bearing on the division of any legislature between D and R. “the standard benchmark”? Why then, pray tell does [Wikipedia choose to use a non-standard benchmark in reporting the election results](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2016)? Is it possible this “standard benchmark”, while certainly one valid way to analyze at election results, is not the only way? Perhaps it’s not quite as “standard” as you two imagine? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-for-us-what-will-you-do/817507)._