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    Votes and Issues in 38 States Are Irrelevant Now (none / 0) (#12)
    by kohler on Fri Nov 04, 2011 at 08:26:48 PM EST
    National Popular Vote would give a voice to the minority party voters in each state and district (in ME and NE).  Now their votes are counted only for the candidate they did not vote for. Now they don't matter to their candidate.  

    In the 2012 election, pundits and campaign operatives already agree that, at most, only 12 states and their voters will matter under the current winner-take-all laws (i.e., awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in each state) used by 48 of the 50 states. 12 states will determine the election. Candidates will not care about at least 76% of the voters-- voters in 19 of the 22 lowest population and medium-small states, and in 19 medium and big states like CA, GA, NY, and TX.  2012 campaigning would be even more obscenely exclusive than 2008 and 2004. In 2008, candidates concentrated over 2/3rds of their campaign events and ad money in just 6 states, and 98% in just 15 states (CO, FL, IN, IA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NH, NM, NC, OH, PA, VA, and WI).  Over half (57%) of the events were in just 4 states (OH, FL, PA, and VA). Candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise, organize, campaign, or care about the voter concerns in the dozens of states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind.  More than 85 million voters have been just spectators to the general election.  

    Now, policies important to the citizens of `flyover'  states - that include  9 of the original 13 states - are not as highly prioritized as policies important to `battleground' states when it comes to governing, too.

    Charlie Cook reported in 2004:
    "Senior Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd pointed out yesterday that the Bush campaign hadn't taken a national poll in almost two years; instead, it has been polling 18 battleground states."

    Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer acknowledging the reality in the Washington Post on June 21, 2009 said:
    "If people don't like it, they can move from a safe state to a swing state."


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