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I should've known this, but I didn't. Due to the way senate seats are 2 per state, a Kansan's senate vote is worth 13 times what a Californian's is. And if that's bad, Wyoming clocks in at 71 Californians. You can see why pandering to the NASCAR set is a political must for the taxbreak-seeking Montgomery Burns type.
I got this little tidbit in the new book The Great Divide, which is available free for download, in pdf. The author argues that the Democratic party should essentially give up on the rural fundamentalist vote, stop posing with corn, and form a centrist coalition based around the values of diversity, technological progress, and multilateralism. It's a helluva read, stronger on analysis than prescription, and I wholeheartedly recommend it, despite their silly advertising strategy.
