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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33. "Meaningless subgroups"? Massachusetts and Virginia have both existed more than twice as long as Germany or Italy. https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1124851132684226560 …
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 …
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 …
This was not true until 2000 for TX & 2017 for FL
Yes, but the total number of votes that were cast for Trump in 2016 in Texas was only around 100,000 more than the votes cast for Clinton in New York, but winning Texas was worth 7 more electoral votes than New York.
And both may vote blue in 2020. There is no way in hell #Trump carries 48 states. With a 39% approval rating and 60% of the country saying they will not vote for him again no matter what, he will not win the popular vote either.
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