Frateloni's hardware and garden stores brings your garage logic podcast number 1,419, November 5, 2024, 73 degrees on this day in 2016, and as chilly as 3 degrees on this day in 1951.

Hail the flashlight, king!

Hell you!

And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake.

It's garage logic with Chris Reaver's Manning Technology Corner.

Kenny Olson from the crabby coffee shop, John Hyatt in the newsroom, and of course, the rookie.

Here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner, and the keeper of common sense.

Your mayor, Joe Soucher.

I read an email from a professor Friday out in Coos, Oregon.

And he was straightening us out on the electoral college.

And, you know, I thought it was all right to go with the guy because he was a professor, you know.

But apparently many, many, many emailers wish to tell me that that guy was completely wrong.

For example, Brian writes, I just listened to the Friday's podcast and don't know if you corrected this,

but you had an email from an Oregon professor who said Nebraska and Maine appoint their electors

proportionately based on the popular vote.

That is not true. Both states appoint oneately based on the popular vote. That is not true.

Both states appoint one elector based on the winner of each congressional district.

Three for Nebraska, two for Maine, and then two at-large electors based on the overall winner of the state.

All right.

Jonathan Wright, sorry, but you were frustratingly off base during your

electoral college.

Nebraska and Maine do not award electoral votes proportionally.

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