Does Idaho want what it voted for?
In a recent editorial, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments:
Idaho just hit the electoral jackpot. Too bad the Gem State doesn’t play the game any better than it does.
As a rural state, Idaho enjoys two advantages. Its 1.6 million people have the same two seats in the U.S. Senate as do the 39 million residents of California. And that edge bleeds over into the Electoral College.
States such as Idaho banded together - along with some of the rust-belt including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania - to hand the White House to Donald Trump in spite of the fact that Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote is now at 2.8 million and growing.
All of which prompted Steven Johnson to muse in the Dec. 3 New York Times about the irony of rural states hewing to the Tea Party ideal of being under-represented and overtaxed. More here.
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