<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>If only there was some sort of multi-state organization through which individual states could pull together on issues spanning multiple states.  Such a &amp;quot;federal&amp;quot; approach would be very useful.  If only someone had thought of this years ago.  Of course it would have to be staffed by people selected and respected by all, but surely there is some way of doing that too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>Also relevant is that the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware made a similar pact today.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Massachusetts has also joined this pact as well (I thought it was surprising that it hadn&amp;#x27;t when I first read the news).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/13/california-oregon-washington-announce-western-states-pact/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aioprisan</author><text>MA joined in as well on that pact</text><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>Also relevant is that the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware made a similar pact today.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Massachusetts has also joined this pact as well (I thought it was surprising that it hadn&amp;#x27;t when I first read the news).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/13/california-oregon-washington-announce-western-states-pact/</url></story>