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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Jul 2019

      "Literally zero people have made" the argument that the 2016 result discredits the Electoral College. Also: https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1152663127873527809 …pic.twitter.com/Vy2LfaYMpY

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

      Since folks are kicking around arguments about the Electoral College again, I've previously written a piece @NRO & two long threads on the topic. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1108025352062992384 … https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124753911972278273 … https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/what-the-electoral-college-saves-us-from/ …

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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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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Brian Beutler

      "There are no possible arguments in favor of the American system of government as it has existed for two centuries" is a take that says more about the person writing it than it does to engage with the issue.https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1152668227757121536 …

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      Brian BeutlerVerified account @brianbeutler
      The argument against the electoral college is that everyone's vote should count equally. The arguments for the electoral college are so shitty that only daft fools make them when EC/NPV mismatches happen to go their way, and everyone points and laughs at their nonsense. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1152665851469934592 …
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    4. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Jul 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank @NRO

      Wait! You conflated “American system of government” which is your phrase not @brianbeutler, with a discrete instituting called the Electoral College.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Jul 2019
      Replying to @yeselson @NRO @brianbeutler

      It's literally the system by which we've chosen the most important figure in the American government for over two centuries.

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    6. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Jul 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank @NRO @brianbeutler

      It’s a component of how we elect the president. It’s far from the whole political system.

      1 reply 0 retweets 20 likes
    7. Brian Beutler‏Verified account @brianbeutler 20 Jul 2019
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank @NRO

      I'm more interested in his assumption that because it's a long-lasting thing the founders contrived it must be supportable. My understanding is that the founders established certain norms and institutions that lasted a great long while that seem very evil in hindsight.

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    8. Osita Nwanevu‏ @OsitaNwanevu 20 Jul 2019
      Replying to @brianbeutler @yeselson and

      The Electoral College we have now isn't even the one devised by the Founders.

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    9. Brian Beutler‏Verified account @brianbeutler 20 Jul 2019
      Replying to @OsitaNwanevu @yeselson and

      The argument is fallacious in countless ways.

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    10. Osita Nwanevu‏ @OsitaNwanevu 20 Jul 2019
      Replying to @brianbeutler @yeselson and

      I really don't see why we have to talk in circles about this every few months. They should just say rural and conservative votes should count more so we can all go about our days.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Jul 2019
      Replying to @OsitaNwanevu @brianbeutler and

      I'd say that, if it's what I believed. EC gave Rs a *smaller* share than the popular vote in 2012, 2008, 1996, & 1992. Many articles were written, as recently as 2015, about a Midwest D "Blue Wall." I don't complain about rules just because my side sometimes loses under them.

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        1. Osita Nwanevu‏ @OsitaNwanevu 20 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @brianbeutler and

          Good for you. The Electoral College is bad on its merits and should be eliminated.

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        1. Brian Beutler‏Verified account @brianbeutler 20 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @OsitaNwanevu and

          It does seem hypocritical of of us and an affront to democracy that in each of their elections Clinton and Obama lost the popular v–oh what's that you say?

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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @OsitaNwanevu and

          And that’s absurd too. It’s nonsense on stilts that nobody cares about rural or urban votes in the two largest states. That a continental nation settles its presidential election on the contingent evaluation of maybe a third of the voting population based in a dozen states.

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        3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Jul 2019
          Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank and

          That those states change over time is irrelevant. So another third of the population in a dozen states is where the election occurs. The votes are weighted between those that matter and the majority which don’t. That’s nuts.

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        1. Masculine, popular, but not overly active‏ @CharlieToft 20 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          That's because the Republican lost, not because there's a EC bias against Republicans. The EC usually works to magnify the size of the victor's win. Reagan beat Mondale 525-13, but his popular vote margin was slightly smaller than 98-2.

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        1. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @OsitaNwanevu and

          I think minortarianism is a deeply held ethos of conservative thought. And majority are sometimes cruel and worse. But it’s not sustainable generally in a democracy. Legitimation will collapse. Most votes wins is intuitive to most people for a reason.

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        1. Edwin Santana, MPS‏ @EdwinSantanaVA 20 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @OsitaNwanevu and

          Is this a self own? Dems won the popular vote in every one of those elections. You’re proving our point.

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        1. CRT Slocum‏ @RwSlocum 20 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @OsitaNwanevu and

          Did the Electoral College work as intended in 2016? Or in 2000? Did it protect America from an unfit President? Or did it usher in a deranged old man into the highest office in the land?

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        1. Robert Arnold‏ @Fergus302 21 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @OsitaNwanevu and

          https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/bush-set-fight-electoral-college-loss-article-1.881690 …

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