DEMOREP1 wrote: >The general bias towards the small States is of course due to each >State having 2 Senators (and 2 electoral votes) regardless of its >number of voters for President. Thus, a minority of the grand total >who live in the small states can control the election of President. In practice, though, there's a bias by the candidates toward the large states, as exemplified by Dole's focus on California. The small states' voters may be overrepresented--I'm not sure; I'd have to analyze the academic argument that claims the reverse--but the large states' voters are the ones pandered to by the candidates. I don't like the Electoral College, but for different reasons. I think the two-party system it engenders stifles democracy. ---Steve (Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED])
