A) inappropriate for a site called "Hacker News". B) You don't understand the problem, so you can't ask the right questions. There are just over 4000 Democrat

A) inappropriate for a site called "Hacker News". B) You don't understand the problem, so you can't ask the right questions. There are just over 4000 Democratic primary delegates, total. There are just under 2400 Republican primary delegates, total. Thus the Democrats have about 1 and 2/3 delegates per Republican delegate. HOWEVER. Mississippi, which just voted, has a total of 40 Democratic delegates and 39 Republican delegates. What? Why don't the Democrats have 1 and 2/3 times the number of Republican delegates? The answer is that the states are ALREADY weighted. They are weighted so that reliable states have more weight, and unreliable states have less. So the Republicans want more (proportionally) delegates from Mississippi than the Democrats do, because Mississippi is a red state whose votes they will need in the Presidential election. If we take Massachusetts, the Republicans have 40 delegates total, and the Democrats have 121 - because it's a blue state. If we take Ohio, a swing state, it's 181 to 88, which is 1.8 to 1, pretty close to the "proper" delegate ratio. That is: the states ARE weighted, they are weighted exactly opposite to the manner that you propose, and you have absolutely no power or influence to change that weighting unless you start your own political party.