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impartialobserver » 27 Jun 2022, 3:20 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Jun 2022, 3:20 pm

A while ago on the .org a poster that I can't recall laid out numerically how much a person's vote counts for. It was a measure of voting population divided by electoral votes. Yes, it did show that WY citizens get proportional more influence that CA and so on. However, the differences were pretty minute. Besides, it helps to have differing perspectives. Life is different in Thermopolis, WY than in NYC..

Yeah, that has always been my argument.  I have lived in the most “City of the Cities” in NYC.  I have lived in the burbs.  I have lived in rural Al.  I have lived in Alaska.  And now I live in Hampton Roads Va in the burbs where 5 minutes one way is urban and 5 minutes the other is rural.  I have also been to 48 of the states.  Never got to Maine or Hawaii.

Different areas have different needs, wants, and problems.