How far can it go? [presidential race] Who knows. Until then, how about some fiction?

[fountainpenkid]

I was not alleging a conspiracy, but stating one of the more unsavory outcomes of the electoral system. Dilution is inherent in and at the philisophical core of voting, and if everyone has equal voting power, their votes are diluted along the lines of reality; their status as a minority in the country at large is represented as it should be. The current system distorts the political realities, diluting and enlarging power undemocratically. As for the concept of 'majority tyranny', I admit I've never found it a compelling concept when adressing the fairness of a national election: why should the vote divide its power by states when the position being considered is one of national scope?