6.01.2011

'Anti-Urban' Policy Bias

(via VH1) David Leonhardt explains in the NYT why the early states - Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada - totally skew federal policy and the tenants of "one man, one vote." It turns out that a voter in one of the above states have 5x the weight of a Super Tuesday voter. Also, the focus on these states - smaller, more rural, older, etc. - skews federal policy on a range of issues.