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If you’re running for president and you have a limited money, it’s best to focus on the major population centers in your bases. Forget the rest of the country.
by Overtonwindow 4y ago
If you’re running for president and you have a limited money, it’s best to focus on the major population centers in your bases. Forget the rest of the country. If all you’re going for is raw numbers then it becomes a system that can be manipulated, which will leave half the country completely ignored.
- frosted-flakes 4y agoIs that true though? You don't need to visit a place to appeal to voters there.
- pauldenton 4y agoWell presidents typically do speeches and rallies in person
- sokoloff 4y agoMy concern is that if I don't trust the vote counting mechanisms in <pick a state that isn't mine>, I can at least take comfort that the worst-case outcome is that the citizens of that state do not get their votes accurately counted, but that the damage is limited to those (fixed amount of) votes being cast not in accordance with those citizens. If we define the amount of election discrepancy as being the difference between the election totals and the count of actual ballots properly cast by legally eligible voters, an electoral college system confines discrepancies to within the given state. Illinois voters might have their votes improperly represented, but that's of much less concern to Arizona voters than if any election discrepancy not only misrepresented voters' wishes in Illinois but could manufacture additional voting power to that discrepancy.