New York: Emperor of the Electoral College
6 min readSep 25, 2018
A popular myth of the moment is that the Electoral College prevents New York from deciding presidential elections. This myth is built around the fact that at the moment, New York happens not to be a battleground state.
There are two traits that make a state an important battleground: Being close to evenly divided between supporters of the two major political parties and being large. In general, about half of the large states are battleground states.