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Here's a short video I did with the great folks in the @nytopinion video department. Watch it for a quick debunking of some of the most common and persistent myths

50 years ago today, at almost this precise moment, the last serious effort to abolish the Electoral College by constitutional amendment and replace it with a national popular vote died

Not picking on @jonathanchait here, b/c I see this repeated all over, but it makes no sense to argue that state legislatures' power to bypass voters & appoint presidential electors

In fact it's already been tried. Into the 1960s, Georgia used a kind of "state Electoral College" in its primaries. The Supreme Court struck it down in Gray v. Sanders,