The Collapsing Electoral College

I noted last month that this year’s presidential election features the smallest battleground in modern political history.

Jonathan Bernstein has more:

“I think many of us with a sense of U.S. history know that fewer states are competitive now than used to be the case, and some might know that’s especially true of big states. But I’m not sure if people realize that it’s a continuing trend. Folks in the 1990s and 2000s talked as if only Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio were contested, but in fact they were just the largest of a dozen or so contested states.”