We were talking about the relative vote representation for president with the electoral college, and how the "slave" states were placated with it, and I made a tongue in cheek statement about how we don't call them "slave" states anymore. Wisconsin, Michigan, and PA don't really fall into any part of that discussion, but let's take the most rural of them and break it down with what I'm concerned with in the EC:
As we discussed earlier, a Montana vote counts 3.6 times or so the amount that a California vote counts. But let's look at Wisconsin with the same metrics.
Wisconsin: 5.75 million people, 10 EC votes; 1 EC vote per 575,000 people
California: 38.8 million people, 55 EC votes; 1 EC vote per 705,000 people
I have no issue with that split. It's still very reasonably proportional.
Wisconsin has many rural areas. But it's populated enough to bring it into fairly proportional representation. It's not even partisan. I'm also talking about Delaware, and Vermont, and several others that always go blue.