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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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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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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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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American presidential primaries are also traditionally conducted on a state by state basis.
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