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Welcome to Citiwire.net! With the election hot upon us, I couldn’t resist my quadrennial hit on the electoral college (I actually wrote a book on the topic, The People’s President, published in 1968). I’ve never wavered from my belief that the only way to fix the current system’s madness must be a system that assures all Americans’ votes are counted equally, not inflated or deflated by the accident of the state they live in. Some truths never change! Ultra up-to-date is the Citiwire.net piece by our Citistates Associate, Robert E. Lang, PhD, of Virginia Tech. Rob, a highly regarded and often-quoted demography/politics observer, nails the self-defeating nature of the Republicans’ anti-urban campaigning in a nation turning ever more metropolitan. … Note: Citiwire.net will be “off” next week, returning with columns for Nov. 16 release.