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If the Florida Panhandle were reassigned to be part of Alabama and the Upper Peninsula of Wisconsin reassigned to be part of Michigan would any conservative still be arguing that the Electoral College is actually good because something something big cities? — PolitiTweet.org
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@michaelbd Ok — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @_waleedshahid: ”Racism’s function in American politics has been in part to serve as a kind of scam. The Jim Crow South had the lowest l… — PolitiTweet.org
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Worth noting that while being loudly racist this week, Republicans are also quietly blocking Democrats’ efforts to raise the minimum wage. — PolitiTweet.org
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@BenjySarlin I just really think it depends on what campaign tactics the candidate chooses — which media markets do you run ads in, what do they say, what do tell reporters, etc. — PolitiTweet.org
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Federalism is great unless you want to: a) Secure fundamental individual rights b) Address problems that are national in scale, or c) Deal with America’s relationships with foreign countries Luckily those three things aren’t very important so we can count on federalism! — PolitiTweet.org
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Got stuck in a traffic jam caused by overflow from a Dublin Donuts drive through. Gotta love New England. — PolitiTweet.org
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Kind of wild that in 2008 both parties’ nominees were broadly popular — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @TX21Indivisible: We’d say he’s the biggest liar in the district but that would be a lie. He doesn’t live in the district 🤷♂️ — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @JWMason1: AOC: Unemployment has fallen three full points since 2014 but inflation is no higher today than it was five years ago. Given… — PolitiTweet.org
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If Trump has even minimal competence he’d be claiming credit for Kawhi’s return to America and the destruction of the notoriously anti-Trump Warriors dynasty. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
How unpopular was bussing in the 1970s? Well (per @KFILE) even Vermont radical Bernie Sanders opposed it and claimed that it “creates racial hostility where it did not previously exist.” https://t.co/CyDPIkcuPA https://t.co/TwsryywBNs — PolitiTweet.org
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The key legal question facing SCOTUS in the Census case is do the Republican judges want to issue the decision that will help Republicans win elections by rigging the Census (yes they do) or do they not want to do that (no they don’t). — PolitiTweet.org
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Working on a Beto assignment and I’m struck that despite losing the stage Hillary Clinton did better in Texas than any Democratic presidential candidate in 20 years and nobody concluded that she is a once in a generation political talent. — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @OsitaNwanevu: The next time someone asks me what I think the next few decades of American politics are going to be like, I'm just going… — PolitiTweet.org
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There are some things I like a lot about Warren and also I have some doubts; she seems like one of several people I could imagine being strong nominees and good presidents. Bernie Twitter’s insistence on reading any description of him as not-so-radical as a *criticism* is odd. https://t.co/tlvxl9vmfm — PolitiTweet.org
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At least the trends are in the right direction. https://t.co/jyvsN8bUdD https://t.co/7kf09AqkCe — PolitiTweet.org
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“Olay for a close relative to marry a black person” is really low. https://t.co/jyvsN8bUdD https://t.co/5vBHWsMO4b — PolitiTweet.org
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Worth saying that while it happens to be true that the five biggest cities in the US are all in very blue states (NYC, LA, Chicago) or very red ones (Dallas, Houston) this is basically just a coincidence rather than a long-term feature of the Electoral College. — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @ne0liberal: Thank god https://t.co/kEv1bmCbRw — PolitiTweet.org
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This seems like more intellectual firepower than the topic “why conservatives dislike socialism” really merits. https://t.co/qyydxfgFZW — PolitiTweet.org
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Constantly admitting that your pretexts are fake is a strange negotiating strategy. — PolitiTweet.org
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The @fivefifths algorithms told you this would happen! — PolitiTweet.org
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Regarding Carlson’s claim that “our leadership class remains resolutely libertarian.” — It’s true that current public policy looks nothing that a Cato Institute white paper. — It’s also true that both parties’ leaders are more libertarian than their rank-and-file voters. — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @eitanhersh: I propose a new depoliticization plan for American democracy. 1. Americans choose party leaders (through a system of loca… — PolitiTweet.org
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@libbycwatson @kath_krueger That’s not something I believe but I will confess to believing that labor and capital do not have fully aligned interests — one important reason people form union. — PolitiTweet.org
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@kath_krueger Because I’ve been asked, repeatedly, specifically about my status as an owner or part-owner of the company and I wanted to explain. — PolitiTweet.org
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@kath_krueger To explain a situation I get asked questions about. — PolitiTweet.org
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~~ tides of consent ~~ — PolitiTweet.org
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@fmanjoo The whole YouTube/child porn thing. — PolitiTweet.org
