re: How far from U.S. Mainland to snag a new state?

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thanks to Republican power being concentrated in the smaller states whose citizens' votes count proportionally more than the votes cast by citizens in the more largely populated (and usually Democratic) states.

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Now here's a great example of liberal corkscrew thinking. After applying basic 8th-grade math to this, I've failed to extract a crumb of logic from it. Does this respondent fail to grasp the basic concept of the relationship between population base and the corresponding electoral votes and the free choice of the citizens within the respective state borders?? He's blaming the water for finding the hole in the boat.