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Well they're off to jail. Three down a zillion left to go.......
"It's ok for you to be in this country but not to run it."
Ridiculous to paint this as anywhere near a majority of the country or some epidemic problems. Racists have always been around. White people elected him though, he won their vote the same way he won the minority vote. Clearly, by-and-large, America as a whole wanted him running the country, by virtue of he got voted in to start running the ****ing country.
He won the white vote the same way he won the minority vote....care to give proof of this, as well as the comment....Clearly, by and large, America as a whole wanted him running the ****ing country...? and please don't insult me with...."he won".....I deal in statistics. Winning the Electoral College does not equal the majority of the country. The majority of voters voted for Hillary...so NO by and large America did not want him to run the country, and by large they are not happy with how he is running the country....his approval rating tells us this. I'm fine if you are happy with what he is doing g and how he is doing it..... that is your opinion, but please don't use sweeping generalisations to prove your opinion is right...."It's ok for you to be in this country but not to run it."
Ridiculous to paint this as anywhere near a majority of the country or some epidemic problems. Racists have always been around. White people elected him though, he won their vote the same way he won the minority vote. Clearly, by-and-large, America as a whole wanted him running the country, by virtue of he got voted in to start running the ****ing country.
Sure it does. A majority in terms how how we decide elections, in the way it matters.
I think he knows exactly what shes saying. The point hes making, is that we dont base our elections on a popular vote, so the point is moot. We base our elections on the Electoral College. To try and make a point about Hilary getting a popular vote means nothing, as thats not the system thats in play, nor how the candidates campaigned. Who knows if the outcome would be different, if the rules were different? We dont know, so people need to stop acting like a popular vote means anything, when thats not the system.
Take Baseball and The World Series, for example: the system is a best out of seven series. It doesnt mean jack if your team had the most homeruns, but lost the series. The World Series isnt about who had the most runs, its about winning a best out of seven, so complaining about who had the most homeruns during the series is a moot point. And just because your team had the most runs, doesnt mean theyre the best or more powerful team, because thats not the rules that both teams knew of going into the series. And even if The World Series was based on the most runs, doesnt mean your team wouldve won, because maybe the other team wouldve adopted a different strategy based on runs, and not overall wins. Again, who knows? All that matters though, are the defined rules that both teams agree to going in. Thats it. Hypotheticals are just that: hypothetical. It means nothing with limited knowledge and variables.
Because it's a diverse country? Because San Francisco's different to Bum**** Texas? Because even among liberal cities there are different degrees of liberal, and among conservative cities different degrees of conservative?
They don't. Their areas/counties count the same.
Which is the, going-on-a-bold-kick-here, point. Representative democracy, people. The civilized world has done it this way for a couple centuries now.
We've had 58 presidential elections and the electoral vote has only differed from the popular vote 5 times, however it's happened twice in the past five elections? So I'm not fully set on things need to change as of yet. I think it'd need to happen again.
I'm also not convinced that the removal of the electoral college wouldn't just make candidates pander and campaign in California and New York only. Just removing California's votes, you would of had Trump win the popular vote by a million.