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Steven Rosenthal@spaf Great post!
I'd add the majority of the country did NOT vote for this. Don't let people make assumptions because many people didn't turn out.
Aphrodite (recharging)That’s all the more damning since they couldn’t be assed.
Example: Oregon has vote by mail. Only 67% of voters returned a ballot in contrast to 78% that voted in 2020.
They literally only had to fill it out and stick it in a mailbox. They didn’t.
Utah, also VBM. Similar story.
baconandcoconut@Aphrodite @stevenrosenthal @spaf Oregon is a "safely democratic state" and I think voters in safe states" feel increasingly like they don't matter. National candidates don't talk to us, but they do send 1000 fundraising requests for outreach to other voters. If voters in "safe states" voted third party or just didn't vote then that doesn't feel like the right place for our collective anger to me. Maybe instead it should power a conversation about abolishing the electoral college?
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EC reform wouldn’t have changed things this go round.
The avalanche has started. It’s too late for the pebbles to vote.
@Aphrodite @stevenrosenthal @spaf I think changing the way the national parties interact with voters in all states might've changed the way the popular vote went. Maybe it wouldn't have been enough this time, if we'd changed it say, 4 years ago, but decades of ignoring voters in 30 or so states would take a long time to fix.
Peter Brown@baconandcoconut @Aphrodite @stevenrosenthal @spaf that would be a first step. The second would be to introduce proportional representation.
@peterbrown @Aphrodite @stevenrosenthal @spaf Which is a thing people could work on at the state level, although for obvious reasons people belonging to each state's minority party would be the most motivated to make it happen.