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Old 11-08-2012, 01:40 PM   #539 (permalink)
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In regards to your question, there are seven states with three electors (both dakotas, wyoming, vermont, alaska, delaware & montana). To give you an idea how large an area this is, Montana itself is bigger than Japan, and these states combined areas are bigger than one million square miles.

Devolving powers from the Federal Government to the states in general seems unlikely, as we've been moving to inexorably in the opposite direction since FDR (if not before) & because the whole Democratic party seems vehemently opposed to any notion of states rights. Somehow, to these Liberals, binding these states up further in the apparatus of the Federal Government in which they've so little say is increasing their relative freedom.

Hence why there are rumblings, from Bill Maher to Fareed Zakaria, to actually decrease the power of the less-populated states in the senate. It seems as though even though the people of these states have essentially no power over issues of drafting budgets, declaring war, & impeaching presidents, having some power in one of three branches of federal government is just too much, :P
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