> Which party wouldn’t work hard to get an extra 100k+ voters? Parties in America, where 100K votes might be perfectly useless, if they're not in a battlegroun

> Which party wouldn’t work hard to get an extra 100k+ voters? Parties in America, where 100K votes might be perfectly useless, if they're not in a battleground state. In 2012, Obama beat Romney in California by over 3 million votes. Getting 100K extra votes in California wouldn't have helped either party, and just taken time/money/people away from states where it mattered -- like Florida, which was decided by fewer than 100K votes. It's not a matter of voter turnout, either. Even if every voter who stayed home in California in 2012 voted for Romney, he still wouldn't have won the state.