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Jeff, we sniveling urban liberals (who didn't take civics because we were too busy taking useful classes like physics and calculus) are people too. We make breakfast every morning, go to work during the week, maybe work on the car in the evening, or have a drink at the bar on the way home. We're not trying to "run the country" any more than anyone else is. We simply want a fair voice in choosing the most powerful person in the world.

Again, the "population centers" aren't running the country. The people run the country. It just so happens that a large percentage of the people in this country have chosen to live in an urban area. You yourself are one of the big-city folks who is under-represented in presidential elections. It's only by coincidence that the party you favor comes out ahead in this deal. So please take your class warfare nonsense somewhere else.

I don't claim to understand all the ins and outs of electoral theory. But attempting to malign city-dwellers is off the mark, as well as tiresome. Did you even notice the irony of your remarks? You're defending the "hick rednecks" from an imaginary attack even while viciously insulting "distorted little universes" that many people, including you and me, choose to live near.

And honestly, it saddens me that "intellectual" is now an insult in many circles.