[Zetman]

“More important,’’ he said, “is changing the way presidential campaigns are conducted in this country. Now, the candidates spend almost all of their time in a handful of battleground states like Ohio and Florida and ignore the rest of the country. This would force candidates to campaign nationally for every vote.”

Sounds like "bull" to me. Who actually believes this stuff?? I would like to see a breakdown of where the greatest concentration of 50% of the U.S. population lives. I would suspect that it is in big cities, and if we started with the most populous big city, and worked our way down the list, I'll bet we wouldn't have to go too far until we had accounted for 50% of the U.S. population.

This means we would have the same problem that he describes above, only now condidates would campaign within a relatively small handful of large population centers, and ignore the rest of the country. Most states would probably never see a candidate, and even states like California would only see candidates campaigning in their big cities.

Furthermore, how do big cities tend to vote?? I would not be surprised to learn that the populations of big cities tend to vote more to the left than to the right. It seems that there is something about living in big cities that does something to people's collective IQ's.

This seems to be specifically designed to ensure more victories for liberals, and that Conservatives are shut out and marginalized. The fact that some RINO's are supporting it is meaningless window dressing. The "problems" described in the article could be made worse (unless your name is Al Gore). I hope that intelligent people stand up and put a stop to this.

[RockinRight]

Furthermore, how do big cities tend to vote?? I would not be surprised to learn that the populations of big cities tend to vote more to the left than to the right. It seems that there is something about living in big cities that does something to people's collective IQ's.

Most big cities are heavily Democrat, almost all. If you take then entire county in which they're located you get a few that lean right when you include the suburbs outside the city within the county: -Cincinnati -Houston -Dallas -San Diego