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Comment Re:Electoral College (Score 1) 474

While the electoral college provides a boost to the likes of Wyoming and Delaware, it it most benefits big states, due to the winner-take-all aspect. From this article in Slate:
In their book Electoral College Primer 2000 (which, alas, was not updated for 2004), Lawrence D. Longley and Neal Peirce calculated that the states enjoying higher-than-average voting power under the Electoral College were the following (in declining order): California Texas New York Florida Pennsylvania Illinois The states with the least voting power under the Electoral College were the following (in ascending order): Montana Kansas West Virginia Maine Arkansas Utah Nevada

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