"riverman" wrote in message
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On Jul 31, 12:55 pm, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:
rw wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Apparently you want to use those numbers to claim that Alaskans have
three times more clout in the electoral college than Californians.
Sorry, but that dog won't hunt. Alaskans have over ten times *less*
clout in the electoral college than Californians and over ten times
less clout than Texans with their 34 electoral college votes.

I'm saying, and consistently have been saying, that an Alaskan has three
times the voting power of a Californian and a Texan, not that Alaska AS
AN ENTIRE STATE, has three times the voting power. Can't you ****ing
read?

You're making a spurious argument. You want to claim that because
1 electoral vote is split between 600,000 Californians but only
between 200,000 Alaskans that an individual Alaskan has three
times more "voting power". It's like arguing that because 3 people
split an orange somebody else has more apples.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Besides, several states have Alaska beat for a few number of voters
per electoral vote.
Alaska has 218,478 per EV
North Dakota has 211,455 per EV
Vermont has 207,131 per EV
DC has 184,507 per EV
and Wyoming has 168,843 per EV

In fact, a single Wyoming EV represents almost four Texas EVs. I'd
think, with the propensity of Texans at high levels of our government
in recent years that the EV system would have been changed if they
felt the system was biased against them.

--riverman

And California being a winner take all state, disenfranchises about 75% of
the people by geography. SF and LA are a majority of the people and the
rest of the state is fairly conservative. The Conservative sections never
get a resonable say. In neither state or national elections. The
Gerrymandering of the state gives us a legislature that is much more liberal
than the state is as a whole. The district covering Sunnyvale and the
Silicon Valley also goes over highway 152 in a 2 mile wide section for 100
miles to gather in Livingston in the Central Valley. And the very liberal
leadership of the Legislature promised us a fair redistricting before we had
elections to force just that. They lied, and after the election where the
measure failed because of the promise. They have ignored their promise.
All public officials should serve two terms. One in office and one in
prison.