Extra Republican Electoral vote in 2008?

[Kevinstat]

Just for the record, more people (as of the 2000 Census and 2004 estimates) lived in the District of Columbia than Wyoming, although the has been narrowing since the 1950 census.  As of the 2000 Census, D.C. had a population of 572,059 while Wyoming had a population of 493,782.  According to 2004 estimates from the Census Bureau's web site (  ), however, Wyoming's population had grown to 506,529 while the District's population had dropped to 553,523.  Those estimates were of the population on January 10, 2004 while the official date of at least the 2000 Census and I believe every U.S. census is sometime in April, so the time from the 2000 Census to the 2004 estimates makes up about 37.5% of the time from the 2000 to 2010 Censuses.  Making the (obviously incorrect but still useful) assumption that both D.C. and Wyoming will have the same rate of population growth (negative in D.C's case) from January 2004 to April 2010 as from April 2000 to January 2004, Wyoming's resident population as of the 2010 Census will have grown to (rounded to the nearest person) 542,153 while D.C.'s population will have dropped to 523,955.  Okay, I've gone on way to long here, but, for now, there is one state with fewer people than the District of Columbia that has two U.S. Senators, one voting U.S. Representative and three electoral votes.

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Wyoming gave us Dick Cheney.  I rest my case.

[Kevinstat]

Wyoming gave us Dick Cheney.  I rest my case.

DC gave us Al Gore.

Good One.  I do far prefer Gore to Cheney, but I'll admit that Gore isn't the kind of person people would go "Woo Hoo" about having them come from their state (or district, as the case may be).

[Kevinstat]

theyre taxed but not represented, which is unconstitutional.

Don't tax them then.

The Commonwealth of the District of Columbia.  Interesting prospect.  That's kind of what it sounds like when you propose having D.C. residents not be taxed by the federal government, although I know Puerto Rico doesn't have any electoral votes.  Of course the 23rd Amendment could be amended to apply only as long as residents of the District of Columbia were taxed, but some might consider it hypocritical to prevent any future “representation without taxation” of the District of Columbia without eliminating the present taxation without (full) representation.