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    1. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 16 Sep 2020

      "My team hits lots of foul balls recently. What if, after the game is over, we say that they should be counted as homers?"

      8 replies 6 retweets 71 likes
    2. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @michaelbd

      It’s not a game! We’re not just making rules for entertainment and enjoyment and yet people defending the system are inexorably drawn to the metaphor.

      10 replies 2 retweets 62 likes
    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @chrislhayes @michaelbd

      The reason we compare the rules of electoral politics to the rules of games instead of the anarchy of war is that we aim to get people to accept the legitimacy of outcomes with something like sportsmanship, rather than with Dolchstoßlegende & bloody revanchism.

      6 replies 0 retweets 21 likes
    4. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd

      But there’s an actual moral/democratic content here! If we just had an old rule that people who’s last name started with S got two votes that would be...not defensible even if it were the “rules of the game”

      2 replies 2 retweets 23 likes
    5. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @chrislhayes @baseballcrank

      It might be a good reason to change the rules, it wouldn't be a good reason to believe treat the results of elections fought under double-S rules, as serviceable results for elections run under different rules.

      2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @michaelbd @chrislhayes

      Exactly. And one-man-one-vote national popular elections to choose the chief executive are not only unprecedented in US history as the world's oldest continuous democracy, they are also a rarity in the world's other democracies. Only a few countries use them.

      8:49 AM - 16 Sep 2020
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        2. Matt Wisnefske, in the Cellar, with the Wrench‏ @mwisnefske 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd @chrislhayes

          50 states use it and somehow have not descended into anarchy.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @mwisnefske

          Actually, zero states choose their governors by nationwide votes.

          4 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
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        1. Mike G‏ @gribbo586 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd @chrislhayes

          That argument goes both ways. What other nation has an electoral college?

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        1. Craig Nicholas‏ @ThePathological 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd @chrislhayes

          Why do you even type this out while knowing what the immediate rebuttal going to be? Then the point about states is made and you have only a dumb non-response to it. Great example to set for defending something we're supposed to cheerlead the legitimacy of

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        1. Bobby Cosmo‏ @Bobsalltimehits 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd @chrislhayes

          Two cheers for parliamentary democracy.

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        1. Charles‏ @charleswayne13 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd @chrislhayes

          I want to see California's reaction to being required to run their elections based on the rules in place in Florida. After all, a national popular vote would require a single nationwide set of rules about every aspect of the vote. Like whether felons could vote or not.

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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd @chrislhayes

          “Unprecedented” here means nothing per se as an argument on the merits. Lots of things are normatively terrible and the better thing that replaces them is “unprecedented.” So what? The word obstructs critical thinking by ginning up status quo bias.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @yeselson @michaelbd @chrislhayes

          The fact that our system has endured this long - longer than any other on the planet, even if measured from 1804 rather than 1789 - argues against tampering with it.

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