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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: March 14, 2007, 11:47:19 AM »

Sweden uses a national vote system and it's evident how virtually all of the campaigning takes place in Stockholm. No one bothers with the rural areas.

In part wouldn't that be because everyone knows that (most of) the rural areas will vote for the Social Democrats regardless? Over here areas with lots of safe seats "tend" to get ignored as well.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2007, 12:17:18 PM »


No; I ignored it. There's a difference Grin

Agree with you, btw.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2007, 12:32:10 PM »

Sweden uses a national vote system and it's evident how virtually all of the campaigning takes place in Stockholm. No one bothers with the rural areas.

If a popular vote system came into effect in the U.S., the campaigning would concentrate on swing areas, and on the bases for both sides.

Which means that it's not going to be all urban campaigning in the U.S., because Republicans can't win most urban areas, and they'd need to keep the turnout high in their base areas.

Depends how thee defines urban though, doesn't it? A bumpkin/hick, such as myself, would probably tend to view everything in a metropolitan area as being urban.

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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2007, 06:53:41 PM »

The large states would get at least 90% of campaign attention.

Actually it wouldn't even be done on a state-by-state basis
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