In 2012 Obama won 10 of Kentucky's 11 largest cities (user search)
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ElectionsGuy
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« on: July 08, 2013, 09:28:43 PM »

The rural countryside is more powerful than the 11 biggest cities in Kentucky, especially the extremely republican south central part, so yes. It's just a part of being in a state where you're the opposite party of the state. I have to deal with the fact that Milwaukee and Madison control Wisconsin's vote most of the time.
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ElectionsGuy
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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2014, 03:06:46 PM »

NB If I thought the OP was having a joke I wouldn't say this. But it seems plain it's no joke

The cities being denied fair representation is no joke. This is an issue of taxation without representation.

Dude, I didn't realize you were this stupid. Cities don't get represented in elections, people do. People represent themselves by voting. A vote in rural Appalachia counts just as much as a vote in a big city.
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ElectionsGuy
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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2014, 11:51:55 PM »

NB If I thought the OP was having a joke I wouldn't say this. But it seems plain it's no joke

The cities being denied fair representation is no joke. This is an issue of taxation without representation.

Dude, I didn't realize you were this stupid. Cities don't get represented in elections, people do. People represent themselves by voting. A vote in rural Appalachia counts just as much as a vote in a big city.

Devil's advocate here but this is a Presidential election. People don't get represented (directly) in Presidential elections, the states do. In that respect a vote from like West Virginia is actually worth double a vote from New York (but half a vote from Wyoming).

When you think about it but would some sort of system of electoral votes based on municipal boundaries hypothetically be more fair than one based on entire states because it'd have the same flaws but people's votes would be more likely to matter, and count for their candidate of choice

Oh yeah, the little thing called the electoral college that distorts the representation of popular vote. I forgot about that, but in any case the winner of the popular vote of a state wins the electoral college votes of that state. So votes do matter, just more so in some states than others.
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