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Half of Presidential Campaign Is in Only 4 States

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The map shows the number of campaign events in each state between the nominating conventions and the first debat

Half (77 of 153) of the presidential and vice-presidential campaign events between the nominating conventions and the first debate have been in just 4 states (Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio). 

A National Popular Vote movement is more than halfway to eliminating the winner-take-all system that allows presidents to be elected with less than the majority of votes, as happened in 2000.

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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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