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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
You also just described the general e l section. You don't think the sparse amount of people in Wyoming don't feel disenfranchised by the large number of electoral college voters in New York and California ?
It is simply our system.
Anyone smart enough and trying to win will understand the systemand try to win. Trump simply felt the small number of delegates in Wyoming weren't worth leaving his fight for delegates in New York for. Cruz did. It's a numbers game, and those were too small for Trump to care about. He is correct.
But for him to act like he is then shocked and angered by the loss is mere catering to the anger of his supporters. Once again smart of Trump. But also hypocritical.
206 posted on 04/17/2016 5:47:36 PM PDT by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: builder
You also just described the general e l section. You don't think the sparse amount of people in Wyoming don't feel disenfranchised by the large number of electoral college voters in New York and California ?

This is a dumb comparison, since that difference in electors is precisely designed to limit the power of states with a higher population. IOW, it's designed to insure they aren't disenfranchised. It's also dumb for another reason, since it's apples and oranges. People in Colorado, the working class, etc., should have the right to determine who it is they support. Comparing a voterless election to an actual election in the general is just absurd.

228 posted on 04/17/2016 6:00:45 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: builder

“You don’t think the sparse amount of people in Wyoming don’t feel disenfranchised by the large number of electoral college voters in New York and California ?”

If they do they don’t understand arithmetic. The people of Wyoming have the highest impact on the electoral college, not the lowest—they have one electoral vote per 142,741 people. The people of CA have one electoral vote per 508,344 people, and New York gets one electoral vote per 519,075 people. The dilution of votes is much higher in heavily populated states.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2012/11/presidential_election_a_map_showing_the_vote_power_of_all_50_states.html


236 posted on 04/17/2016 6:08:58 PM PDT by LNV (Cruz supporters would rather beat Trump than Hillary.)
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