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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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To: LNV

I heard on the news tonight that Cruz won the Wyoming primary.

That’s way off base as normal by the media, as Cruz won a POTUS candidate selection in Wyoming by elites and delegates, not by the people. Most Americans find that process of political insiders picking candidates as decisively un-democratic.


306 posted on 04/17/2016 8:13:18 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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