Both are politically irrelevant because California is reliably Democratic and Wyoming is reliably Republican. Under the current state-by-state winner-take-all system, a vote for President in Wyoming is equal to a vote in California. Maine was not among them (just as it wasn’t in 2012 or 2008)! In 2016, 2/3rds of the campaign events were in just 6 states 94% were in just 12 swing states. Maine has never been a battleground state! Candidates spend their time and money in the states that are closely divided, not the ones that are clearly or likely to majority vote for one party over the other based on polls and history. The small states (the 13 states with only three or four electoral votes) are the most disadtagedvan and ignored group of states under the current state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes NOT because of their low population, but because they are not closely divided battleground states. Myth #2: Maine, with only 4 electoral votes, would be disadvantaged by the National Popular Vote. The 100 biggest cities have 59,849,899 people, and the rural areas have 59,492,267 people and they are not all of one party! In fact, 85% of the US population lives in cities with a population of fewer than 365,000 (the population of Arlington, Texas, the nation’s 50th biggest city). The “big city” myth may stem from the misconception that big cities are bigger than they actually are, and that big cities account for a greater fraction of the nation’s population than they actually do. Los Angeles does not control the outcome of statewide elections in California so it’s hardly in a position to dominate a nationwide election.The fact that LA does not control the outcome of statewide elections in its own state is evidenced by the fact that Republicans such as Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were elected in recent years without winning Los Angeles. Myth #1: Big cities, such as Los Angeles, would control a nationwide popular vote for President.
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