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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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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It's not hard to imagine a hypothetical scenario where a candidate who won a majority still lost - in fact, it's far more plausible than the hypothetical you presented earlier.
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If that's the main practical effect of electoral college, you can just replace it with a run off system.
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There are problems with a first-past-the-post system where a plurality winner is not a majority winner. But those problems can be resolved by ranked choice voting.
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This is where we see a kind of pre-Copernican logic in play, conjuring ever more convoluted hypocycloid loops to explain away the obvious.
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Why the fuck is it better to resolve a plurality by giving more weight to certain voters and less to others rather than holding a runoff with the top two candidates?
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