Tweet against electoral college

TWEET AGAINST ELECTORAL COLLEGE BY GETTING VOTE FOR #ALDEMS CONG'L CANDIDATES UP

TO: As many #ALDEMS and other Alabamians as we can tweet to:

While #ALDEMS Congressional candidates (except for Terri Sewell) may not win, it is important to get the total vote for them up.

The electoral college, which determines the Presidency, and the United States Senate, are undemocratic and unfair.

It was undemocratic and unfair that Donald Trump became President in 2016 when Hillary Clinton got 3,000,000 more votes.

It is undemocratic and unfair that the 25 least populous states have about one-sixth the total United States population, and those 25 states have 50 of the 100 Senators in the Senate.

This unfairness is  a bone of contention between the two political parties, and that will continue after Nov. 6th.

After the 2018 votes are counted, the total vote that Democratic Congressional candidates get nationwide, compared to the total vote that GOP Congressional candidates get, will be important..

The more the total vote nationwide for Democratic Congressional candidates exceeds the total vote for Republicans, the greater the "unfairness" and undemocratic nature of the electoral college and the United States Senate will appear.

Thus it is important to get  votes for the #ALDEMS Congressional candidates up as much as possible, because all the votes will count favorably in the nationwide vote total described above.

We are tweeting to you to call this to your attention and to urge you to vote on Nov. 6th for the Democratic Congressional candidate in your district.

We want to send thousands of tweets to #ALDEMS and other Alabamians to ask them to join with us, and send more thousands of tweets to #ALDEMS other Alabamians, all to get the vote total up for #ALDEMS Congressional candidates

To join in and tweet with us, please follow Steps One and Two below.

Step One

Click on the below "Tweet here" link  to send a tweet that says,

Tweet against the undemocratic electoral college and undemocratic U.S. Senate. Get vote total up for #ALDEMS Cong'l candidates to do this. #alpolitics
https://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2018/10/tweet-against-electoral-college.html

(After you click on the below "Tweet here" link, you will see a preview of your tweet, and your tweet will not be sent until you click the "Tweet" button in the preview.)

Tweet here

Step Two
Send individual tweets to other Alabamians, which tweets have a link to this webpage. This will be to try to get recipients of tweets to come to this webpage, send their own tweet in Step One, and, after that, join in sending tweets to more Alabamans in this Step Two. The goal here to get a large number of "pyramiding" of tweets going to Alabama voters.

A suggested tweet message to send in this Step Two is:

Help tweet against the undemocratic electoral college and the undemocratic U.S. Senate. Help get vote total up for #ALDEMS Cong'l candidates to do this. https://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2018/10/tweet-against-electoral-college.html

Then find follower lists of Twitter accounts in your geographic area that have a lot of followers. Below are examples of good Twitter follower lists to use for the Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile areas:
https://twitter.com/ALcomHuntsville/followers
https://twitter.com/GreaterShelby/followers
https://twitter.com/OTMJ_Life/followers
https://twitter.com/HomewoodHigh/followers
https://twitter.com/TrussTribune/followers
https://twitter.com/ALcomMobile/followers
https://twitter.com/MGMAdvertiser/followers

FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR TWEETING
A. General
This tweeting involves a non-standard use of Twitter, namely, the sending of large numbers of individually directed tweets to followers of other Twitter accounts (not your own followers).
A ground has been staked out with Twitter for this method of tweeting. See letter to Twitter @Support.
The object of this method of tweeting is to get a "pyramiding" of tweets going in Alabama.

B. How to send your tweets efficiently from laptops
In doing your tweeting, you are repetitively sending the same tweet message. This can be done very efficiently, at least on a laptop computer. Get the tweet message on your mouse clipboard, go to the follower list  you are using for your tweeting, start with the first person on the list you want to tweet to, and do this:
1. Right click on person's Twitter name.
2. Choose "open in new tab"
3. Go to the new tab.
4. Click on the "Tweet to" button.
5. Paste the tweet message in the box.
6. Hit the "Tweet" button.
7. Close the tab, which takes you back to the list
8. Go on to next person, and repeat above steps.
You should be able to send 35 to 70 tweets in a half hour. Send as many tweets as you are willing to. Don't worry about any duplication that you think may arise.

C. How to send your tweets efficiently on smartphones
[to be added]



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Increase AL contribution to Dem votes

The electoral college, which determines the Presidency, and the United States Senate, are arguably "undemocratic."

Under the electoral college, Trump became President even though Clinton got 3,000,000 more votes than Trump.

As to the United States Senate, the 25 least populous states have about one-sixth the total United States population, and those 25 states have 50 of the 100 Senators in the U.S. Senate.

Trump has repeatedly bragged about his Presidential win, calling it a "landslide." This has stuck in the craw of the Democrats and accentuated the arguable unfairness of Trump being President even though he got 3,000,000 less votes.

In the 2018 elections, people have become attuned to arguably "unfair" control that the Republicans have over the Senate due to the disproportionate number of Senators that populations in smaller states have.

The contentiousness that this "unfairness" has spawned will continue after Nov. 6th. The Republicans will staunchly defend the status quo, and the Democrats will press the case that the status quo is undemocratic.

Besides continuing to cite the undemocratic result of Trump being President despite getting 3,000,000 votes less Clinton, the Democrats will also likely cite voting statistics in the 2018 elections, such as the total vote that Democratic Congressional candidates get compared to the total vote that GOP Congressional candidates get.

The more that the total vote nationwide for Democratic Congressional candidates exceeds the total vote that GOP Congressional candidates get nationwide, the more compelling the case the Democrats can make about the "unfairness" of the electoral college and the United States Senate.

That excess can also be used for the Democrats to press the case against partisan gerrymandering by the Republicans.

The Democratic Congressional candidates (except for Terri Sewell) may have no chance of winning, but voters should think about getting as many votes for those Democratic candidates as possible, because such votes will count favorably in the nationwide vote totals described above.

This should be used as an incentive and argument to get voters to the polls on November 6th to vote for the Democratic candidates.