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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 4 May 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Charles #GetVaxxed!  💉

      19. I submit that my hypothetical, which assumes 2016 turnout in every state & gives the R the same average share in winning states as Lincoln in 1860 (& more in the losing states than Lincoln got) is considerably more realistic than thishttps://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1124648192082087936 …

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      Charles #GetVaxxed!  💉Verified account @charles_gaba
      Regarding @baseballcrank's idiotic Electoral College defense: In which I prove how someone could theoretically win the U.S. Presidential election with only 0.00001% of the popular vote: http://acasignups.net/19/03/19/those-who-still-dont-get-how-stupid-electoral-college …
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Jonathan Chait

      20. I don't see the need for that: not how it has historically been done & few states are as vast & diverse as the whole country. But not a terrible idea for, say, California if the districts were regularly re-weighted by pop like the EC.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1124654444715626497 …

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      Jonathan ChaitVerified account @jonathanchait
      Replying to @ElectProject
      I'd be interested if @baseballcrank believes states should adopt an electoral college-like system, in which a party that wins huge vote totals in a couple urban counties and loses everywhere else should lose, even if they get more votes?
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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

      21. Again, bear in mind - as noted in my column - that in practical effect, the Electoral College in nearly every case goes to the winner of popular *majorities*; it comes into play mainly where neither candidate gets one.https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/what-the-electoral-college-saves-us-from/ …

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

      22. You: but if we eliminated winner-take-all states, what might the candidate field look like? Me: Let's consider a real-world example:pic.twitter.com/Eoc8YPFLAS

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

      23. As for Trump's tax returns: the norm of candidates releasing their taxes is a valuable one, & both Trump & Romney did themselves political damage by delaying/flouting it. But it's not a job requirement. Until 1916, no presidential candidate even paid income taxes.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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      24. I'll circle back another day to the Electoral College's historical roots, which tend to be oversimplified by the progressive narrative. This, from a liberal historian, is a useful partial corrective https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/opinion/the-electoral-college-slavery-myth.html … https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/1124740681858203649 …

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

      25. My chief historical argument is that we've had the Electoral College in its current form since 1804. What other country's system for popular sovereignty has lasted that long? The world's longest continuous constitutional system is nothing to discard lightly.

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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      26. Also the Solid South from 1880 to 1944 is an important part of the history. I dealt in this thread with the example of 1888, when the Electoral College prevented the lockstep Jim Crow South from re-electing Grover Cleveland.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1114267402513072128 …

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      Another example I didn't have room for: 1888. The ex-Confederate states (not very ex, in 1888) voted 61-37 for Cleveland. Rest of the country went 50-46 for Harrison. Cleveland won only 1 state (CT) that wasn't a slave state in 1860. Cleveland won pop. vote by 0.83% & lost.
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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

      27. Of course, the real scandal of the Solid South's role in Congress and presidential elections in those years is that Congress never enforced Section 2 of the 14th Amendment against them. But that's another day's story.

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    10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

      28. All of that said, while the Electoral College resolves popular vote pluralities, we do face a realistic possibility in 2020 of facing the Electoral College's real weakness: a tie decided by the House. Which would likely go to Trump, depending how the 2020 House races go.pic.twitter.com/Pjr3Rqbm7g

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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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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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Josh Marshall

          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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          Josh MarshallVerified account @joshtpm
          lol it’s remarkable how many nonsensical hypotheticals you can come up with if you don’t believe in majority rule. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124323414720876549 …
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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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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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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          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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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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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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        6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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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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        7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Richard Yeselson

          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 …

          Dan McLaughlin added,

          Richard Yeselson @yeselson
          I noticed @baseballcrank managed to ignore my response which asked him to imagine different state boundaries—quite easy to do—and noted that the plurality problem is easy to Dole with a runoff, say, two weeks after the first general election. C’mon—equal votes for everybody. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124853172751732737 …
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        1. Edwin‏ @Tejano2100 4 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          All of this just to say you hate that minorities will have an equal vote.

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        2. Chris Street‏ @topherstreet 4 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Nowhere in this thread do you point out that Trump could get on the ballot by complying with the law and releasing his tax returns

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        3. gracie‏ @gracieawaits 4 May 2019
          Replying to @topherstreet @baseballcrank

          It’s an arbitrary bar. Commitment to the green new deal or some such would be next.

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