17. States have a distinct role in the United States that counties do not. The country is broader & more diverse than any one state. And no state weights counties by population as does the Electoral Collegehttps://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/1124636582496153600 …
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Elizabeth Picciuto
18. Again, this ignores the fact that the Electoral College is weighted by population. Texas, for example, has so many electoral votes because it has 28 million peoplehttps://twitter.com/epicciuto/status/1124634500959436801 …
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Elizabeth PicciutoVerified account @epicciutoThe D. People have agency and land does not. If there was one Democrat living on the Atlantic ocean (which has just become a state in this scenario), and the whole ocean was thus D-colored blue because of one vote, would someone who endorsed spatial elections think D should win? https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124323414720876549 …34 replies 22 retweets 191 likesShow this thread -
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_gabaRegarding@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 …11 replies 16 retweets 148 likesShow this thread -
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 @jonathanchaitReplying to @ElectProjectI'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?13 replies 14 retweets 123 likesShow this thread -
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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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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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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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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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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1804 is pretty recent in most European countries.
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Fewer than half of the current European nations existed as nation-states at the time.
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