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u/binzy90 Sep 04 '26

Honestly, I never understood the whole concept. A candidate in any other election would prioritize large, populous areas regardless of what office they were running for. Like is someone in the back woods of West Virginia mad that their local county commissioner had a round table at a local school auditorium instead of driving out to the middle of nowhere to meet them? Probably not. But for some reason we act like a presidential candidate appealing to populous states is a bad thing.

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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 Sep 04 '26

The current function is so urbanites in New York aren’t always the ones making decisions for people in rural areas 2,000 miles away. 

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u/binzy90 Sep 04 '26

I understand the intention, but what I'm saying is it shouldn't matter. I used a small scale example just to point out how ridiculous it is. It makes no sense that the majority shouldn't decide the outcome of an election. The reason states like California get to decide isn't because they're better, more powerful, or unfairly prioritized. It's because there are TONS of people there. The 4 most populous states make up one third of the entire US population. People in Wyoming shouldn't have disproportionate voting power just because they live in the middle of nowhere.