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Sounds like a great way for a state to make itself politically irrelevant at the national level.
by theseatoms 9y ago
Sounds like a great way for a state to make itself politically irrelevant at the national level.
- tormeh 9y agoMost states already are irrelevant. Your vote in US elections don't count unless you live in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or Wisconsin.
- InitialLastName 9y agoThat's only true of the presidential election. Senators in states other than those can often go either way, and in the House it's pretty much district-by-district whether your vote matters.
- mobilefriendly 9y agoMaine and Nebraska use a proportional vote so it matters there in some districts. Also Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri, and Georgia are usually battleground states.
- dragonwriter 9y agoMaine and Nebraska assign the votes corresponding to House seats to winners in each Congressional District, they do not use a proportional system.
- dragonwriter 9y agoNo, it counts, it's just those states have recently been competitive. But being competitive or not is just the aggregate effect of individual votes; and which states are competitive or dominated by one party or the other changes over time, sometimes quite rapidly. (Some of us can remember when, in Presidential elections, California was viewed as a Republican presidential lock.)