[Dave W]

Nah. No it isn't. That was true many decades ago, but we are an urban nation now. That is why NYC outvotes the rest of NY state. That is why Northern Virginia, Richmond and Norfolk outvotes 80 other counties in Virginia. One out of every four votes in Virginia originate in just a handful of counties in Northern Virginia. I could go on and on.

I just googled urban vs. rural in the US. Based on the 2010 census 81% of the population is urban. The balance is rural which makes up 72% of the land area, but sparsely populated.

Romney won 78% of the counties in the US, but as we know, Obama cleaned up in the urban areas. That's why he's president.

All you have to do is look at the 2012 election map by county and see the sea of red and you immediately make the connection that most of those red counties are rural and in the larger states are heavily outvoted as a whole by one or two urban areas in their state.

I just looked into it further and discovered the US became urban majority between 1910 and 1920 - 100 years ago! Not sure why you think it is 50/50. Look around you a little bit more.

Go to the Virginia state board of elections web site and look at the registration by county. You will be surprised. Fairfax County has over 650,000 voters registered. Bath County and a ton of others have just a handful of voters.

[central_va]

Take the population of the 50 biggest cities. Then divide by the total US population. You will get .5.

[central_va]

Look at the data. Add up the population of the 50 biggest cities. It comes no where near close to half the population.

Population of top 50 cities in the USA. Link here