Steve Chapman on Getting Shafted by the Electoral College

Some 95 million people live in California, Texas, New York and Illinois—nearly one out of every three Americans. But how many times has Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Paul Ryan or Joe Biden made a campaign appearance in any of them since the party conventions? Zero, or the same number they've made in Bavaria.

Obama and Romney don't seem to be running for president of the United States of America but for president of the Discontiguous States of Florida, Ohio and Virginia. At this point, only nine states, totaling less than a quarter of the population, writes Steve Chapman, are deemed worthy of attention.