18. Again, this ignores the fact that the Electoral College is weighted by population. Texas, for example, has so many electoral votes because it has 28 million peoplehttps://twitter.com/epicciuto/status/1124634500959436801 …
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29. Sure. Lots of things would change about how elections are conducted, who runs, etc., and lots more rules would require changing. Which is why it's silly to critique the current rules with national popular vote figures https://twitter.com/JoeyTeevens/status/1124753308147691521 …
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30. I guess some folks are still doing the thing where they call a plurality a majority? The main practical effect of the Electoral College is to resolve elections where there is no majority, like 2016.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1124844646537015296 …
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31. We should not count votes differently by race. I'm not sure why anyone in this century would argue we should. https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1124850086398312448 …
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32. One thing I discovered in reading the responses is quite how many people on Twitter are unaware that Texas and Florida each have more people than New York.
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33. "Meaningless subgroups"? Massachusetts and Virginia have both existed more than twice as long as Germany or Italy. https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1124851132684226560 …
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34. Actually - and again, this is covered in my piece - very few developed countries choose a head of state by national popular plurality. The German system, like ours, has a federalist structure. https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/what-the-electoral-college-saves-us-from/ … https://twitter.com/AlexMLeo/status/1124849420711936000 …
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35. Too many responses to get to everyone, but once you start adding runoffs, redrawing state boundaries, rewriting ballot & voting eligibility rules, you grasp what a radical reworking of the whole system is being proposed.https://twitter.com/yeselson/status/1124856977992179712 …
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That’s when people will flip out since each delegation gets one vote. The Democrats could have a majority in the House and the House still votes for Trump. Wyoming actually would count as much as CA in that case and oh God the exploding heads at that point.
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