Electoral votes adjusted for potential impact on the election. (click to enlarge) Reprinted from BusinessWeek

Electoral votes and which party they’re likely to go to in November’s election. (click to enlarge) Reprinted from BusinessWeek

The current issue of BusinessWeek magazine has an extremely important series of articles regarding the upcoming presidential election. In essence, the magazine contends that voters in only 17 so-called “battleground” states will actually determine who will occupy the White House next January. It should come as no surprise, of course, that Utah is not one of those battleground states. We are solidly “Red”, or Republican. The Democrats have already conceded here, and so they won’t waste any time or money trying to sway voters’ opinions. My question is, don’t we deserve better and shouldn’t we resent this?

Here are a couple of interesting graphics from the magazine (www.businessweek.com). The second one shows that, even though Utah has five electoral college votes, in terms of “significance”, we only have one. I guess we just aren’t very important.

Posted by windley on June 8, 2004 09:11 AM

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