re: #306 Obdicut

Huh? Can you explain why you think so?

Did you understand I was talking about the Senate?

Yes, but the Senate is just one part of the govt. So I cede your point, which is indisputable, and widen the conversation to another branch, elections for the executive.

The reason that citizens of a big state are more likely to swing an election when it’s close all around is that the probability of the election’s being dead even apart from your one vote, while very small in either case, drops like only 1/(Square root of number of voters.) The weight of the state, on the other hand, is such that in an election where all the states are a tossup because every voter is a tossup, winning CA goes a long way toward victory.