If there were no electoral college, we would be having a completely different conversation right now, and drawing completely different political conclusions. It's amazing how much voting systems matter.
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I’ve been in favor of abolishing the Electoral College since 2000, and that was before the Republican Party had driven me away.
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Replying to @gorskon @sound_of_sirens and
Did 2000 change your mind or had you previously supported it. I have thought it a complete anachronism from doing an American politics module at university in the early 1970s.
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Replying to @SanderjoJohn @sound_of_sirens and
I previously hadn't thought much one way or another about it. I'd spent my previous 12 years training to be a surgeon/scientists and wasn't particularly political.
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