08-30-2016, 12:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-30-2016, 12:22 PM by Eric the Green.)
It could be that the map is a bit outdated, since those counties in NV and AZ have grown so fast in recent years.
In our current system, those who are active and concerned get flooded with emails and mails asking us for money to send to the campaigns in swing states (or even asking us to make remote calls) in order to convince a few swing voters in a few swing states to vote our way. We all participate, in that way; but it's a strange system. Which are the actual swing states somewhat fluctuates over time, but nowadays even that fluctuation has slowed down.
I guess, if you want to help decide the election with your vote, and you are honestly a swing voter, you could move to Ohio or Florida and your vote would count more there, and you'd be flooded with calls and people knocking on your door asking you to vote for somebody. What a life! The rub though, is that most swing voters are less interested in the election until the end anyway, so they might not feel it's all that important to move to Ohio to decide elections!
So what we have is a presidential election system in which the whole country is pulling at the collars of a few reluctant voters in a few states, and whoever pulls the hardest on these voters decides who is president!
In our current system, those who are active and concerned get flooded with emails and mails asking us for money to send to the campaigns in swing states (or even asking us to make remote calls) in order to convince a few swing voters in a few swing states to vote our way. We all participate, in that way; but it's a strange system. Which are the actual swing states somewhat fluctuates over time, but nowadays even that fluctuation has slowed down.
I guess, if you want to help decide the election with your vote, and you are honestly a swing voter, you could move to Ohio or Florida and your vote would count more there, and you'd be flooded with calls and people knocking on your door asking you to vote for somebody. What a life! The rub though, is that most swing voters are less interested in the election until the end anyway, so they might not feel it's all that important to move to Ohio to decide elections!
So what we have is a presidential election system in which the whole country is pulling at the collars of a few reluctant voters in a few states, and whoever pulls the hardest on these voters decides who is president!
