I had used similar data to speculate on the minimum number of people needed to move from the cities to the various counties in order to make the whole country a single party, in theory. A reality is that one party has the numbers of people necessary while the other does not.
I was curious to how much that would cost so it would be clear whether a super PAC could fund it. It would involve housing people long enough to be eligible to be registered in that state.
But then the pandemic happened and people did it on their own. We'll see!
One party has the numbers they need because they need those numbers to be competitive in the current system and have made whatever concessions they needed to to achieve them. If the demographics changed then the parties would adapt so that again they both just barely have what they need. The parties would adapt by campaigning to different groups of voters or changing their policies to attract the other party's voters. It's a waste of resources and concessions to gain more voters than are useful for winning.
I was curious to how much that would cost so it would be clear whether a super PAC could fund it. It would involve housing people long enough to be eligible to be registered in that state.
But then the pandemic happened and people did it on their own. We'll see!