the most power to elect a president with 54 votes??
ANYBODY KNOW??
2007-03-25 15:02:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
California, but as of 2001, they have 55 electoral votes.
2007-03-25 15:08:00 · answer #1 · answered by Retired From Y!A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
California has "the most power" to elect a president only in terms of raw electoral votes.
The states that truly have the most power to elect a president are Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. These are the three largest, closely-contested states. California has the most votes, but its basically a given that the Democrat will win, so it's not very contested. Same with the Republicans and Texas; big state, but it's going to the Republicans.
Presidential elections truly hinge on the outcome of 15-18 (depending on who you ask) "battleground" states, that are closely contested. The Democrat and the Republican usually roughly split the smaller states, so the election comes down to the bigger ones.
In modern races, whoever wins 2 of the 3 states named earlier--Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida--wins the election. If you really want to break it down to just one state, Pennsylvania has a slight Democratic tilt, and Florida has a slight Republican tilt--the one state that actually has the most power to decide the president is Ohio.
2007-03-26 06:27:33 · answer #2 · answered by Connor G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
California has 55 electoral votes, followed by New York with 33.
2007-03-25 18:39:02 · answer #3 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
California
2007-03-25 15:09:24 · answer #4 · answered by artsy5347 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
each state has what's called electorial votes. some states have better than others. The candidate who gets the main votes from that state gets the electorial votes from that state. Then the only with the main electorial votes wins. additionally, they might desire to get such lots of electorial votes to win, which many times happens. This years election proves to be yet another close one.
2016-10-20 11:06:08 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be California.
AND they have 55 not 54.
2007-03-25 15:11:22 · answer #6 · answered by Bubba 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
umm Iraq?
2007-03-25 15:15:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋