Nate Silver had this little essay this morning called: “Democrats Need to Win Elections, Not Flip Electors.”
1) First off, false dichotomy. Regardless of the merits of trying to flip the Electoral College, Democrats are not going to stop trying to win elections. It’s not like there’s a huge, expensive effort to flip electors that is sucking resources from the 2018 campaigns.
2) Regarding the merits, the fact that Hillz won the popular vote by suck a large margin means the EC stinks on ice, Nate, so it’s not the worst thing in the world to say, “You know, if this thing actually worked as intended electors would be flipping like Olympic gymnasts.”
3) 538 uses Facebook for comments, and I don’t do Facebook, and if I did, I wouldn’t do political comments on Facebook (those people are cray). So you are stuck reading this here instead. Sorry?