> Sorry list, I just couldn't resist...... > > *Electoral votes vs. Population [1] > > State Population Votes Votes / M pop. > ----------------------------------------- > Alaska 648,818 3 4.624 > Wyoming 501,242 3 5.985 > Texas 22,118,509 34 1.537 > .... > > I guess you must have missed that day in elementary > school when they covered this. Pretty simple huh??? > > Are you happy that a Wyoming voter has 3.89 times the > political power you do????
The problem isn't so much the weighting (it's even more extreme in the senate), but the "the winner gets it all" principle adopted in most states. This means that both election campaigns do not care a bit about states like Texas where a ten percent swing in one direction or the other simply has no net result. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
