How Much Is Your Vote Worth?

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This map shows each state re-sized in proportion to the relative influence of the individual voters who live there. The numbers indicate the total delegates to the Electoral College from each state, and how many eligible voters a single delegate from each state represents.



“THE conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing — one person, one vote,” the Supreme Court ruled almost a half-century ago. Yet the framers of the Constitution made this aspiration impossible, then and now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/opinion/02cowan.html

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Thank you for posting this! I hate it (I'm in CA), but it's good that everyone can see it. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

2. I hope the 2010 Census can make this more fair. n/t

[Rancid Crabtree]

3. I think a fourth grader could solve this math problem...

...and I suspect the ratio of representation in the US House is just as suspect and that nothing will ever be done about it.