You could eliminate CA, TX, FL, PA, OH and Trump would win the PV

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Yeah, and if you take out just India and China, the world today has fewer people today than it did (with both countries) in 1990. Yes, California is "just one state." One state with the sixth largest economy in the world. It's over 12% of the US population, and more populous than Canada. It's a damned important state. These "BUT WITHOUT CALIFORNIA!!!!" threads are silly, since the US would be a completely different country without California, in the same way that the world would be a very different place if we "eliminated" China.