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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 6 Jul 2020

      4. The electoral college has, frankly, departed from its original design, but its value as presently practiced comes from its two centuries of tradition in choosing the American head of state - the oldest continuously elected head of state on earth.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jul 2020

      5. And some of the reasons why the electoral college still works are part of its original design - they're just not completely coextensive.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jul 2020

      6. One state - South Carolina - had electors directly appointed by the state legislature all the way to the Civil War. Which would cause a national uproar today, but is consistent with broad legislative control.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jul 2020

      7. (Of course, that is not to say that South Carolina in 1860 did not cause a national uproar, but that's a different thing)

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    5. Benjy Sarlin‏Verified account @BenjySarlin 6 Jul 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Related, maybe the strongest case for reforming the EC isn't faithless electors or even the popular vote it's that it's totally legal for another state to go the SC route (more likely divide by district a la NE/ME) and cause said hypothetical national uproar

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jul 2020
      Replying to @BenjySarlin

      As with many things, we could improve the current system but we could never pass any improvements into law bc there would be holdout demands to instead blow the whole thing up, go national popular vote.

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    7. Benjy Sarlin‏Verified account @BenjySarlin 6 Jul 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      There's no obvious alternative , which is also why it just comes back to that same debate over and over again. But if I had to name something that actually ends up blowing up the system, it wouldn't be more EC/pop vote splits, it would be that.

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jul 2020
      Replying to @BenjySarlin

      This year's election being decided - or thrown to the House - by a faithless elector would be a pretty apocalyptic scenario.

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    9. Benjy Sarlin‏Verified account @BenjySarlin 6 Jul 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      I agree, I just think it's really unlikely compared to the other doomsday scenarios

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    10. Benjy Sarlin‏Verified account @BenjySarlin 6 Jul 2020
      Replying to @BenjySarlin @baseballcrank

      Also there is something hilarious about "System working as Founders intended causes apocalyptic crisis"

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jul 2020
      Replying to @BenjySarlin

      I mean, the actual Founders literally amended this part of the system a month before one of them was gunned down by the sitting Vice President.

      8:18 AM - 6 Jul 2020
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        1. Benjy Sarlin‏Verified account @BenjySarlin 6 Jul 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          They dropped some pretty great verses while they were doing it too

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