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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Mar 2019

      The Founding Fathers were wise & practical men. They were not infallible & knew that. Progressives' real problem is Article V: Founders made it impossible for a faction, even a majority faction, to amend the Constitution to its own factional advantage. So this is all pointless.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Mar 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted G. Scott Shand  🌐

      That column is notably careful to ignore Randolph's proposal, excise Sherman's critique of a national popular vote, & generally frame the South as the sole, unified critics of popular election solely for slavery reasons, He ignores quite a lot.https://twitter.com/GScottShand/status/1108063140804210688 …

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      G. Scott Shand  🌐 @GScottShand
      Replying to @GScottShand @baseballcrank @NoahCRothman
      I know you have issues with Jamelle, and disagree with him on this issue, but that's no reason to misrepresent his argument. He wrote an article about the complicated discussion re: the EC amongst the founders, and notes exactly what you did about Sherman. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/the-electoral-college.html …
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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Mar 2019

      2016 electoral votes, states/DC w/ 3 EV: R 15, D 9 4 EV: D 15, R 5 5 EV: R 10, D 5 6 EV: R 30, D 6 7 EV: D 14, R 7 8 EV: R 16, D 0 9 EV: R 18, D 9 Given the D advantage of 24-20 in the smallest (3 & 4 EV) class, the real D grievance is with the small-to-midsize states.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Mar 2019

      Another thing people miss in the "Electoral College means a lot of places get ignored" argument: the primary process gives many of these same voters a big voice. Northeastern Republicans played a pivotal role in nominating Trump, rural black Southerners in nominating Obama.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Mar 2019

      South Carolina may not matter in November, but it matters a whole lot to who is on the ballot in November.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Mar 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

      In 2008, Hillary lost the primary on delegate-count grounds after winning California, New York, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and New Jersey.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1108709436619702272 …

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      Obama-the only Democrat to win a general election popular vote majority since 1976-only got the nomination after losing the national popular vote in the primaries. Yet, I don't hear the critics of the Electoral College bemoaning the damage done by him "stealing" the nomination. https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1108457590588088320 …
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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Mar 2019

      Back of the envelope math, off Census Bureau 2018 population estimates: doubling the size of the House would, without any other changes, raise the 4 largest states from 28.4% to 30.6% of the Electoral College, while reducing the 15 smallest states & DC from 10.6% to 8.8%,

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 Apr 2019

      There's a number of historical problems with the "Electoral College was created to protect slavery" narrative. Left-wing historian Sean Wilentz looks at one of those, specifically, how the Constitutional Convention actually voted.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/opinion/the-electoral-college-slavery-myth.html …

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    9. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 5 Apr 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      It’s a fascinating article to cite, but I’ve been reading Sean since he gave me chapters of his dissertation when I worked in his father’s bookstore, and he’s a liberal, not a leftist (although he probably was a leftist then). It’s important to make these distinctions.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Apr 2019
      Replying to @jneeley78 @yeselson

      Yep. Left has been my impression of Wilentz over the years, but of course I didn't spend a ton of time on the distinction here bc it wasn't relevant to the particular tweet.

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        1. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 5 Apr 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @jneeley78

          You ought to maybe read his stuff on Lincoln and his general views of Obama vs. Clinton vs. Sanders.

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        1. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 5 Apr 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @jneeley78

          Btw, re the difference between liberal and leftist historians, you might profit from reading this—Genovese was a leftist historian in his first iteration; After his first couple of books, Sean isn’t ; Kolko was. I lead with remarks by Tim Carney:https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/35/what-new-left-history-gave-us/ …

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