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Originally Posted by noahath
I disagree. Whilst the election campaign is not centred in NY or CA, how many times do you see candidates hustling in Montana for their 3 votes? Elections are these days centred around Florida, Michigan and Ohio, so the electoral college has basically confirmed what it was set up to stop: the power of a small number of states to decide the election.
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While the politicians may not spend equal times campaigning in all states, the EC offsets the exact thing you are describing. So, it works as designed by offsetting the power of states with larger, more urban centralized populations.