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Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:56AM (#23321928)
Because otherwise only New York, Texas and California matter, which the framers of the Constitution decided was a bad idea.

I actually like the principle of the electoral college, it reminds me that the US is in fact, a Union of States.

The real issue I see are the rampant gerrymandering of the congressional districts, which have a far greater skewing effect on the results than the electoral college (well, technically the same because the congressional districts are identical to the electoral college).

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Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning by bosswipe on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @05:01PM (#23329933)
The States are also gerrymandered, and we are stuck with it for ever. When states like Wyoming and the Dakatos were formed it was calculated based on the left/right debate of the day, slavery.
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