this is incredibly bleakhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/upshot/one-year-from-election-trump-trails-biden-but-leads-warren-in-battlegrounds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share …
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if the national polls and the state polls are roughly correct then trump could lose the popular vote by something like 7 or 8 percent — something like 10 million votes in 2016 numbers — and still eke out an electoral college victory
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at that point you could safely say that the only voters who actually matter in the US are non-college whites in a handful of states
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i’ve made this point before but these EC/PV spreads are democratically untenable even if you believe (erroneously) that this is what the “founders intended.”
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Here’s a scenario: Trump loses by 10 million votes, becomes president anyway, uses his Senate majority to install another SCOTUS justice and completely stack the federal courts, that majority strikes down VRA and allows extreme partisan/racial gerrymandering...
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...and also Trump is more or less free to solicit foreign intervention into the election against his opponents while Barr takes re-election as license to investigate nationally prominent Democrats.
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