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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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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God this thread is long winded. Elections are run by states. If you don’t like it, shake your fist against the Tenth Amendment.
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God bless you for taking on all these crazies. The fact that we have used this system successfully since 1789 should be enough defense. There are 190-odd countries these folks could go to if they can’t respect the constitution.
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American presidential primaries are also traditionally conducted on a state by state basis.
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Most developed have parliamentary systems. They elect a legislature and the head of government is selected from the legislature. Head of state is ceremonial
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In most developed countries, the head of state is a ceremonial position with little real political power, whether it's a monarch or a president. With the exception of dictatorial Belarus, no European country uses a full presidential system at all.
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In virtually all those developed countries where the president is the main power figure - France, Latin American states, South Korea, Indonesia, Romania, Ukraine, etc - the president is elected directly by popular vote.
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That's just not true. Not just that, but you're using an example from 150+ years ago to show what an electoral college 'could' save us from, but the Presidency not going to the winner of the popular vote has happened twice this century. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/22/among-democracies-u-s-stands-out-in-how-it-chooses-its-head-of-state/ …
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You also don't seem to even identify the idea of having - shock horror - multiple rounds in an election. You say relying on popular vote could end up with a President who only won a third of the vote, but the electoral college gave Quincy Adams victory with less)
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