#Electoral

Dear Democrats,You chose your horse, so you're holding the tab when the race is over. If you can win with Biden, good for you, but Democracy has taken yet another
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(1) In the presidential election of 1800, Burr and Jefferson tied in the Electoral College, which threw the election into the House. There the Federalists offered Burr the votes he
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"I'm worried there'll be a number of people on the radical left who'll point to Bernie having lost for a second time, we tried that electoral stuff - that was
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THREADQuestion from @Perma_Skeptic https://twitter.com/Perma_Skeptic/status/1300955017352867840 https://www.newsandguts.com/video/axios-dem-data-firm-projects-red-mirage-of-trump-election-day-victory/amp/?__twitter_impression=true This is t
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I see #ableg is going to politicize #COVID19 with a 5-page glossy document with what should be non-partisan public health info. Did everyone get one of these, or just us
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I know the constant texts/emails/outreach to #vote can be annoying. But part of “winning” this time around requires a mandate. Trump has to be so blown out of the
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Okay, so for a moment let's gently glide up from idiot snark and ask an important question: can there be such a thing as "Trumpism without Trump?" Well, if you've
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Are you a US Citizen or Green Card holder who has won the tech lottery and has > $100k discretionary income? I know for sure there are some reading. Consider
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Today I am angry. And the worst thing is that there is nothing I can do apart from write.The only solace I can take is that The Mirror and The
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It seems like Trump is the end of an experiment with government that started with the Founding Fathers: a thread. While the Constitution and the Federalist Papers outlined a system
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Quick thoughts on electoral strategy: it should be taken as a given that the media will be constitutively hostile to anything left of Blair - pointing out flaws can have
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I've been thinking about the LIBERATE protests completely the wrong way. The point of astroturfing these things is not to fire up / motivate GOP base. 1/https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/1253027810685464581 They're designed to
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Greek chief epidemiologist, Dr Tsiodras: “I wouldn’t like to be in the position of countries that opted for herd immunity strategies, before we knew much about this virus; before we
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I've been listening to feedback from voters since @jjhorgan announced an election. I recognize and understand the anxiety around having an election during the pandemic. However, we have to remember
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Scaling back furlough is a dangerous move that will reduce effective demand, create insecurity and precariousness and presumably endanger lives by forcing workers who can’t work from home back to
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#thread Récapitulatif de mes threads constitutionnel sur la 5,5e Republique (depuis le quinquennat avec synchro Presidentielles / Législatives) :Le systÚme électoral présidentiel FRLes élections présidentielles USLe problÚme du PM e
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