(October 25, 2012 at 1:18 am)TaraJo Wrote: I still don't like the electoral college system. Truth is, in a presidential election, my vote has never mattered. I lived in Oklahoma until I turned 30 and that's just about the most conservative state there is. Both candidates ignored the whole state in every general election. Then I moved to Texas, a state that's much bigger with many more electoral college votes. Know what? The state still gets ignored because it's so solidly Republican. And instead of candidates talking about issues that matter to me, I get to watch them fight and struggle and spend millions of dollars to become president of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Because of the nature of the electoral college system, none of the candidates make serious campaigns in any of the three most populous states since California and New York are already solidly Democratic states and Texas is strongly Republican.
Same boat....I used to live in NY which was solidly democratic and now I live in the asshole of the country...Arizona.
