wrote:
On Jul 30, 10:38 am, rw wrote:


Can you explain why a resident of Alaska should have (effectively) three
votes for every one vote of a resident of California or Texas?


Which vote will get more campaign dollars spent trying to sway it?

Jon.

You've touched on another problem with our electoral system. The
state-by-state winner-take-all system concentrates campaign effort and
money into a few "swing" states, while the candidates all but ignore the
voters in solidly red or blue states. This isn't good. It holds our
politics hostage to small, highly motivated constituencies in the swing
states.

A good example is Florida, where the candidates have to kowtow to the
Cuban-American vote. As a result, I believe, our foreign policy with
respect to Cuba has been stagnant and counterproductive for decades.

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