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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by TedDoesntTalk on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:50PM (#24796576)
Can you explain that? I do not understand.
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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by vharuck on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:25PM (#24797133)
A packed stadium rally in Pennsylvania would have about the same number of attendees as a packed stadium rally in Wyoming or Rhode Island. You couldn't just rely on predictable "safe states" won by voters going straight-party on ballots. As it is, there's barely any reason for a Democratic presidential nominee to show up in reliability red states, let alone offer them anything in a platform.

Switching to a popular vote could lessen the current extremism.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by TedDoesntTalk on Saturday October 17, 2020 @03:23PM (#24812446)
> A packed stadium rally in Pennsylvania would have about the same number of attendees as a packed stadium rally in Wyoming or Rhode Island.

That’s absolutely ridiculous. Apparently you’ve never been to Wyoming, population 550,000. Pennsylvania has 12.8 million.

Thank you for affirming my belief that a popular vote system is just as ridiculous for America.

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