Missouri

[lenulus]

Apparently Missouri always predicts the eventual winner of the presidency.  After living there for 18 years, this comes as big surprise to me.  Anyway, before the results came in tonight, I told Marissa exactly what 5 counties Obama would win, and that those 5 counties alone would dictate the outcome, and that it would happen at the last minute

Comments

[salieri]

I'm not sure it's a big problem in the primaries. It doesn't really matter who carries a state since the delegates are awarded proportionally. In fact, it would make more sense if the press either reported who won in whatever county, or just stopped declaring "winners" by state.

I do agree with your larger point that the "one person one vote" rule does tend to discriminate against rural populations. I'm not really sure what can be done about it, though.

[lenulus]

yeah, I thought of the primary issue almost immediately, but left the post because of the problems in the general election.

Although it did have an impact on the republican race this year.

[gildeddawn]

That's why there's an electoral college in the general election, and everyone hates it.

[userj]

My dad has been making that argument for Minnesota for a long time. Whereas the majority of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area leans to DFL, the outstate areas (with the exception of some of the arrowhead) is predominantly IR. In presidential elections, Minnesota ALWAYS goes democratic (except in a few landslides). He argues that it's unfair that National Politics in Minnesota does not reflect a cross-section of the political values of the state (the local and state elections do a reasonable job though).

I figure the same thing can be said for generally rural vs. urban states though. And in that case the urban bias tends to favor democrats, so you should probably be careful what you wish for...

slippery slopes...

[luke123]

Now you know how Republicans must feel, what with the virtually red US map that represents the electoral points of California. In MN, the TCs are pretty much the only democrat voting region (maybe Duluth too).

But also, Obama tends to get educated, black and young voters- all of which tend to be city dwellers. Hillary gets the working-class and women. But it's not like all city dwellers have a choice as to where they live (nor do people of the feild), and the quantity of land someone has shouldn't give them additional representation.

[nightswatch]

"people of the field"?!

[saritat42]

www.urbanarchipelago.com

[aofclarein]

The divide between Seattle and the rest of Washington is ridiculous. Especially when you cross the cascade mountains -- you are basically in the same category as Montana.

[saritat42]

I remember Philadelphians describing Pennsylvania as "Pittsburg and Philadelphia with Alabama in between."