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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Sep 2020

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dave Weigel

    One reason I disfavor district-based electoral votes. Gerrymandering's mischievous role in the House is mitigated by the president & the Senate being elected on a statewide basis. (Romney would have won the election - not just PA - if done on a House district basis.)https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1308097310891663361 …

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    Dave WeigelVerified account @daveweigel
    Problem with this: States can rig the process through redistricting. Had Pennsylvania assigned electoral votes by congressional district in 2012, Obama would have won the popular vote but Romney would have gotten more electors. https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/1308095631395885057 …
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      2. Josh Barro‏Verified account @jbarro 21 Sep 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        I guess it's interesting that, as an empirical matter, neither Nebraska nor Maine appears to have drawn the maps to aim at a particular presidential result.

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Sep 2020
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        It's notable that it is only small states.

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      1. Jeffrey McCoy‏ @JeffreyWMcCoy 21 Sep 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        At the risk of repeating myself today: adding more representatives in the House would mitigate concerns with the electoral college and help with gerrymandering. The number of representatives was fixed 90 years ago, it is time to change that.

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      2. Irrelevant Nonsense‏ @InsipidTwaddle 21 Sep 2020
        Replying to @CampainMikeMO @baseballcrank

        The primary downside therein is that any significant third-party vote means that the presidency is instead decided by whichever party has a majority of state delegations in the House, which again prioritizes gerrymandering over the will of actual human beings.

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      2. JASmius‏ @JASmius 21 Sep 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Given that the Senate is supposed to be elected by State legislatures who are in turn elected by the people of that particular State, that's less reassuring than it should be.

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      3. jms‏ @malthusian_trap 21 Sep 2020
        Replying to @JASmius @baseballcrank

        There is nothing "supposed" about it; the Constitution was amended via the process laid out in the Constitution. Senators are specifically *not* supposed to be elected by state legislatures now.

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      1. James Phipps‏ @JamesPhipps 21 Sep 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank @daveweigel

        States with less people than the town I live in. Unite the Dakotas and make Wyomontaho happen.

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      1. Jim Shilander‏ @jimmyshi03 21 Sep 2020
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        Sounds like another good reason to remove redistricting from state legislatures

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      1. BC‏ @TheMayor3 21 Sep 2020
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        Look no further than how MS elects it’s governor. And then consider why it was done that way. And then wonder about the Electoral College.

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