Reply #11: Flip it around.. Why should state with so FEW votes be "entitled" [View All]

[SoCalDem]

to hog the lion's share of resources and time of the candidates, when they offer a very skewed view of what the eventual election would look like?

By using a regional system, they would probably see plenty of the candidates..

Why should two very small and very "unrepresentative" locations have MORE clout than any other place..

The regional map, as I have drawn it, gives equal representation to "all" slices of life.. Each region has rural,industrial,urban, "elite" and "non-elite".. I do not see any drawbacks at all, and the show of strength or lack of would be more indicative as the race continues..

South Carolina & Oklahoma voting for a "favorite-son" type of candidate is not indicative of the way that the rest of the south *might* vote, any more than New Hampshire voting for a fellow-northeasterner..

If we expect to shoot down the "he cannot win in ......" argument, the best way is to regionalize them, so that whomever emerges is seen as the one who competed in ALL areas, against ALL candidates, and was chosen because the MOST people in all areas chose them..not because , by the time it was "....."'s turn that's all they had left..

If you go to a buffet and choose the roast beef, is one to assume that roast beef is your favorite?? or was that choice made because by the time you got to the buffet line, the prime rib, ham, and shrimp were all gone?? :evilgrin:..