04-21-2017, 09:55 AM
(04-21-2017, 08:24 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: She got more votes than anyone ever who wasn't named Barack Obama. That's pretty impressive.
Not really. The next election someone else will take that crown.
Quote:Also impressive is being able to win the electoral vote when 3,000,000 more Americans voted for the other person.
Again, not really. The way the system is set up this is going to become more common as large population states continue to widen the gap in population with the "smaller" states.
Quote:More Americans voted for her. That makes her more popular. Dishonest and misleading is suggesting that whole states vote the same, that both candidates don't get votes from every state, and that a state with 1 out of every 548 Americans is the same as a state with 1 out of every 8 Americans. If you want to talk about the importance of the electoral college versus a national popular contest in our federal system, that's fine, but we're not discussing how we elect our president, just whether or not getting the most people to vote for you makes you the most popular.
Living in CA I can tell you that even discussing Trump in terms that don't involve fire and brimstone condemnation will get you exiled by many people. Anyone who deals with humans knows that group think and herd mentality is a real thing. If it wasn't then Putin was wasting his time.
