Gabu
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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2007, 12:03:41 AM » |
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Seriously though, it makes perfect sense that this would be the case. Every state will have two more electoral votes than it "should" were it the case that electoral votes are distributed purely by population. That inherently biases the system in favor of the candidate who is able to appeal to a larger number of the fifty states. As the number of electoral votes increases, the weight of these two extra electoral votes is diminished, and the fact of who won the most states becomes less and less of an issue, eclipsed by the fact of who won the most populous states.
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