Nate Cohn

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@esseeeayeenn this is not the real problem with the EC. trump still wins in 2016 without it. the main bias with the EC is that it's winner take all, which is the same as bias as first-past-the-post, but with even more distortion because single states (essentially districts) have so many votes — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 29, 2021

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

TLDR: an anti-Democratic bias is not the same as a countermajoritarian bias. That happens to make it easier to fix without constitutional reform. And makes it harder for the GOP to justify their edge; this isn't intentional or inherent to the design — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 29, 2021

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@JEMesserschmidt well, it is sort of complicated, since an EC that was 20% as countermajoritarian as the Senate and 80% pure majoritarian would be roughly 1/5 as biased as it currently is and we'd be in clinton's second term — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 29, 2021