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We are a representative republic.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Under the left’s plan, how would they have liked this scenario:
Gore wins 49 states with a 50,000 vote margin in each one, Bush wins Texas with a 3,000,000 vote margin. Bush wins!
That’s one reason we have an electoral college.
Most of the states will stay in the “as is” column. There are only a few “in play” states, Florida, Ohio, etc.. that have to change in order to sway the election one way or the other.
Libs in gereral have a problem with federalism. The would prefer a unified state with States surviving as quaint legacies of our ever receding past . . . like provinces in France. Every Frenchmen refers to his province (Normandy, Provence, etc.) though they haven't existed for 200 years.
These polls matter because the popular vote winner will likely win the electoral college. Yes in 2000, Gore did win the popular vote - but that election was razor close at 48.4 Gore to 47.9 Bush.
If Obama wins by a percentage point or more he would almost certainly win the electoral college tally, and the same goes for the GOP nominee. So yeah, these polls matter - particularly when you use something like the RCP average.