he's talking about the popular vote. Like it or not, more people voted for Hilary. I'm not contesting the electoral college, but that is what happened.
Yeah, it kind of is our fault. Democrats could have put up literally any other politician and they would have won; they could have probably put up some homeless bum they yanked off the local gas station corner and he'd stand a fair chance. But no, they had to choose Hillary. For some fucking reason.
Even if she did win the popular vote, she just barely won, so a lot of Americans DO want Trump and did vote for him whether you want to believe that or not.
When you think about it two million is only 1/4 of New York City’s population so take them out of the equation and I’d bet my ass she loses the popular vote.
Two million people is more than the population of Wyoming, Vermont, New Mexico, Maine, North Dakota, Alaska, Delaware, South Dakota, Montana, New Hampshire, Hawaii, West Virginia, or Alaska. That's not an insignificant amount of people. There are boroughs of New York that have more people than some states.
That’s exactly the point though pripyatplatypus. All these people living in Nyc have similar issues they deal with it and have no idea of what rural life is like which is why it’s imperative that the electoral college is in place so that people living in the small states with less than 2 million people can still be heard because otherwise politicians would only listen to nyc and la and any other big urban city. It ensures all voices are heard.
I get the point. I'm saying that 2 million people is not just some drop in the bucket. I've lived in two of those states listed, and I am forever grateful that each state has two senators no matter what. It evens the playing field. I was more calling out the idea that those 2 million shouldn't be recognized.
That’s fair, and I don’t think those 2 million shouldn’t be recognized it was strictly theoretical. The point is popular vote doesn’t mean much because we have the electoral college and there’s a good reason for it.
325 million votes were not cast. Roughly 130 million were. What I find more telling is how close Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and... was it Michigan? were. Trump won those 3 states by 150k votes total and it basically flipped the election.
Except that there is no such thing as the "popular" vote. There are 50 separate votes and the vote totals they report aren't complete or validated. Many municipalities stop counting when the number of votes left to count is less than the gap between the 2 candidates, and absentee ballots are usually the last ones left and don't get counted.
For any 1 municipality it's not a big deal, but, cumulatively around the whole country, it could mean a very big swing.
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You are aware of what happens when a state goes blue or red, right?
No one knows how voting works because American don't wanna do research on their own political system.
At least he's actually doing good work.
As for the rest, all the more reason to keep the college
For any 1 municipality it's not a big deal, but, cumulatively around the whole country, it could mean a very big swing.
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