>>>But you can make the argument in the opposite direction. Only about 12 states mattered in this election, so the campaigns visited them over and over. Voters in California and New York and Texas and Wyoming and ... didn't get to have an impact.
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>Actually all states matter, even if taken for granted like CA or TX. Meanwhile first world voters accept that there's a process and that while it may not be perfect, it has been associated with generations of prosperity in the good old US of A.

So the electoral system is the reason for the prosperity ?

Or is it that the prosperity made people happy to accept the system ?