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(Lot's, actually, but one stands out.)

Voters in the remaining 43 states are reduced to the role of spectator.

I'm in TX. Does it matter how TX votes? Apparently not. We're spectators, all 30+ million of us.

I like to use the analogy of a basketball game (or football, or whatever team sport you prefer). Sportscasters like to say that "So-and-so won the game." But if it's won by 1 or 2 points, and those last points happen in the last 30 seconds, that demeans and renders the previous points meaningless, or at least it would seem. But remove any 3 of those and the winning team would have lost. The person who scored the first point was as valuable a contributor to the team's victory as the last scorer. One star accounts for 20% of the points, over and over, and the team only wins by a few points? Well, great, at 20% is awesomely important, but without the rest of the team that star player would be the astronomical equivalent of a brown dwarf, a failed star.