But “president by ten arbitrarily contested states out of 50+ DC” *is* how we elect presidents. (The states may change, but not the logic.) In a country of 200 million eligible voters spread across a continent and beyond, that’s shrewdly empowering to we, the people!https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1167951035127582720 …
There's 2 unbridgeable Right/Left (defining both broadly) divides. 1-Right believes states (& place, generally) matters in a non-arbitrary way. Left doesn't. 2-Right sees that eliminating the EC would require comprehensive revision of the American voting system; Left wants this.
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As for 1: the question of course is: matter for what? No, we shouldn’t weight voters differently and privilege states; (And generally, of course place *matters*—that’s really a straw man!) 2) The American electoral state is completely dysfunctional. By what metric would you say
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it’s the equal of any other advanced democracy? Is there any logic to partisan state election officials?! Who would invent a system like that today?
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