Commentary
Look at the county-by-county voting map of the country by party. What you observe is an ocean of red and little blue space here and there in the major cities in major population centers. This pattern has changed very little for decades. Everyone knows this and yet there is very little understanding as to why this pattern persists and why blue so completely dominates red in election outcomes. You can drill down further and look, for example, at New York State from the recent governor race. Forget everything you know about how American elections operate and imagine a system whereby the whole gains some form of representation in the U.S. Congress. You might imagine that one part of Congress would represent the popular vote and thus give population centers dominance. The other would represent the whole geography of each state and thus be dominated by broader interests of the whole people….