those are good points friend, I’d counter #3 though by saying that those states are heavily focused on simply because they could truly go either way on Election Day.
If you calculate how much “electing power” someone living in AK, WY or MT has vs. someone in CA or NY, say, it’s a lot higher.
3 EV / 584,000 people = 0.00000514 (Wyoming)
28 EV / 19,678,000 people = 0.00000142 (New York)