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SamWangPhD
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Scientist @Princeton. Data-based tweets plus news and sometimes opinions. Help fight gerrymandering: bit.ly/2JpeKnw Podcast: bit.ly/2hE9zSp
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Sam Wang
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If John Kerry had won two percentage points more in Ohio in 2004, I am sure we would - from Republicans. And they would be right to do so.
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EverQueen Mason
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me as an editor vs me when it's time for me to write pic.twitter.com/rvB7wYjedh
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Sam Wang
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On top of all this, the Electoral College poses a serious national security risk. The number of votes that have to be hacked to flip an election can be quite small. pic.twitter.com/KoG3Qf19Au
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And guess what? Turnout in non-swing states is lower than in battleground states. That's bad for democracy, without a doubt. pic.twitter.com/9jQCb6usMO
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In any given year, only a handful of states are genuinely up for grabs. Today the closest states are more white, fewer blacks, as well as (to pick a few examples) fewer Mormons and within-50-state Puerto Ricans.
(first image, @FiveThirtyEight. Voter power calculation, PEC) pic.twitter.com/jFnoI4yGL2
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Actually, no. For example, in 2016 the minimum number of jurisdictions needed to reach Hillary Clinton’s popular majority was 39 states plus DC.
But let’s get serious. Let’s review origins, consequences, & flaws of the Electoral College.
[here beginneth the thread] twitter.com/JustinTHaskins…
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This is not a matter of D's or R's. It's a matter of giving an incentive for candidates to reach all Americans.
It's *currently* the case that rural areas are ignored. And Senator Graham's own South Carolina got no visits in 2016. Change that!
See: twitter.com/SamWangPhD/sta… twitter.com/LindseyGrahamS…
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No, it's the opposite. Most rural regions/states get very little attention from presidential candidates. A national popular vote would give an incentive to go to every state - including South Carolina, which received no visits during 2016's campaign:
twitter.com/SamWangPhD/sta…
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If you're worried about big-state domination, it's the *current* system that allows that.
If one adds up the popular vote in 2016, it would have taken 39 states plus DC to get to a win. That would require national reach by either candidate.
More: twitter.com/SamWangPhD/sta… twitter.com/jbouie/status/…
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"Buried in the debate about Trump’s mental health is the misinformed assumption that mental illness disqualifies someone for high leadership. If this were policy, Lincoln and Churchill would have been lost to history due to their battles with depression." statnews.com/2017/09/06/don…
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"[France's Europe minister] Ms Loiseau joked in an interview with the French press that she had nicknamed her pet cat 'Brexit' because of the way in which it meowed loudly to leave the house but then stood there when she opened the door."
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
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The problem is not necessarily the Electoral College; the problem is that in the early 19th C the EC changed from a deliberative system to a winner-take-all
system. Both add a mechanism between the popular vote and the president, but one is a brake, the other an accelerator. /1
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Steven White
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My sense is that opponents of a national popular vote don't actually care about large vs. small states at all (except as empty rhetoric); they just believe that people in large cities should count less than people in small towns (regardless of the state).
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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I have been thinking about the zombie argument that a popularly-elected president would let “big states dominate small states” and it is still unintelligible to me. I cannot figure out the logic.
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Jon Favreau
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Open to ending the filibuster: Warren, Inslee, Buttigieg, Beto, Booker
Unsure/conflicted: Bernie, Kamala, Gillibrand, Klobuchar
Who else has been asked that I’m missing?
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SCOOP: A pilot who hitched a ride on a Lion Air flight saved the 737 Max from a plunge by telling the crew to disable a malfunctioning flight-control system.
The next day, the same plane crashed in the Java Sea, killing 189.
bloom.bg/2HGRzY0
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Robinson Meyer
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According to the latest Iowa Poll, climate change may be one of the top two issues for Dem caucus goers.
It’s tied only with *health care* for levels of concern.
I wrote about this surprising result—and the new nationwide mobilization around the issue:
theatlantic.com/science/archiv… pic.twitter.com/jutMO8qoFz
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NPR
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called the suspect "a terrorist," "a criminal" and "an extremist."
"But he will, when I speak, be nameless," she told Parliament.
npr.org/2019/03/18/704…
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In those particular states, yes. Overturning those maps would likely gain 2-3 House seats for Democrats in North Carolina, and 1 House seat for Republicans in Maryland. Somewhat cancelling in terms of raw power...but they would improve competition in both states.
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