@SparkAndromeda
@MikeKofiA
actually ranked choice voting would accomplish that better....
and the EC, ironically,gives an opportunity to promote 3rd parties as some states are so one-sided people can vote 3rd party without fear of disrupting the major party outcome.
@brianefallon
the filibuster should be modified that it can only be used when a minority of senators represent the majority of the population
#ThursdayThoughts
@RPURHAM
@kanova
here is the founder of America's original republican party on the definition of the word. no need for representatives stated. Now, that's always done, for reasons of practicality. 1of 2
@vanillaopinions
The "republic not a democracy" line is literally just a way of invoking the two parties' names and creating associations of authoritative legitimacy with one over the other. It's not deeper than that and not enough people call this out.
@Tim30781874
do you ever wonder why it is put this way, that the word republic "appears"? why they dont just come out and say the constitution says we are a republic? It is put this way as a rhetorical trick because the Constitution's only reference to republic is in regard to the states
@AnthPittore
@Eggymceggerson3
@Nate_Cohn
if you poll on the state level, then the polls certainly arent irrelevant.. . .the states popular vote determines the states electoral vote in all but a few states. . .
and btw, a republic is a democracy
#ElectionDay
One of this age’s great crank ideas, that the U.S. is a “republic” and not a “democracy,” is gaining so much ground that people in Michigan are trying to rewrite textbooks to get rid of the term “democracy.”
@blueheartedly
@QuancyClayborne
eliminating the electoral college before getting a handle on money in presidential elections will just drive up the cost of campaigns and give yet more advantage to the big money-men
@Axamoretl
abolishing the electoral college before getting a handle on money in elections is a mistake. . .. it would drive up the cost of elections giving yet further advantage to the big money folks
@wingod
@Punished_Jess
in federalist
#9
Hamilton talks about the horrors of republics.. in 10 Madison talks about the diseases most incident to republics..maybe you should read it a bit closer
@birkett_dave
@jaynordlinger
get a grip, . , . , even heavily ag states are probably more than 20 to one non-farmers for one. . . . .the most ag state is California . . ..but republicans will keep playing up their supposed affinity for farmers
@Zebop
@danielmarans
@HuffPostPol
Shontel's campaign played on the emotions with the jill stein thing
while taking money from people that also gave to Trump. . .
@kbore1
@AIPChristina
@JohnFugelsang
saying a "we are a republic not a democracy" is like saying its a quadrangle not a tetragon... .
read federalist 9 to see Hamilton's attitude toward what most people thought of as republics
Madison hedged on his staements in 10
@ToddToddowens
@CapitalF
@PoliticsWolf
youre both wrong...a republic IS a democracy, the EC makes us LESS of a republic, but, it is not as bad as leftist generally think...battleground states are pretty representative of the nation as a whole