Daniel Bishop wrote: > > Despite what you've heard from residents of the small > states, this is incorrect. Because the electors are > chosen by a winner-take-all system, the Electoral > College actually gives MORE power to large states. > I can't pretend to have followed all the shenanigans or bothered to learn the US electoral system, but it is interesting to note that if (as some have suggested) Britain became the 51st State, it would have the largest population of any and be nearly 20% of the US population. If what you say is true then we would have an interesting amount of influence!
