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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
You're correct in theory but wrong in practice, because it isn't worth going to Wyoming to get that vote. There aren't enough of them. 83% of the US population lives in urban areas. In a pure "national vote count" scenario, winning those votes becomes all that truly matters - it's the only reasonable way to spend your time and money if you're campaigning.
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I don't expect Biden or Trump or whoever to go door knocking in rural Wyoming, but they're not doing that in urban New York either. Instead, they'd devote more of their advertising and messaging to broad national campaigns that reach a wider audience instead of hyper-focused regional campaigns that reach comparatively fewer people.
As to your point that 83% of the population live in urban areas and so they would decide the election in a "national vote count" scenario...I'm utterly failing to see the problem with that. If only one out of every six Americans lives in rural areas, why are they given so much disproportionate voting power in national elections? That's incredibly undemocratic. One person, one vote, all votes count equally is the only fair way to hold an election.