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Originally Posted by JackDog
They already do this (and I have no problem with it), but what's even worse is that with the current system, states that are predictably "red" or "blue" are ignored by both parties. The only votes that Presidential candidates bother to court are the handful of "swing states."
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That's a self-fulfilling argument. What states are predictably red or blue? The ones that have the populations dominantly in the rural or urban environment, and the policies of the two parties tend to appeal to the sort of people who live in the rural or urban environments accordingly. This happens in the microcosm as well: Just look at an electoral map of California, which is predominantly red: The red/blue divide isn't on states, it's based on population concentration.
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