The problem isn't so much the weighting (it's even more extreme in the senate), but the "the winner gets it all" principle adopted in most states. This means that both election campaigns do not care a bit about states like Texas where a ten percent swing in one direction or the other simply has no net result.
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Paul Schmehl (pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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