04-21-2017, 10:03 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.
Against Donald Trump. I don't find that all that impressive.
Quote:Also impressive is being able to win the electoral vote when 3,000,000 more Americans voted for the other person.
Hillary really underperformed. She should have gotten way more votes than she did. She got 2% more votes against a guy that everyone was saying had about a 0.0001% chance of winning. I just can't call her popular vote win "impressive". If anything she didn't even meet expectations.
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.
It makes her more popular in the 20 states she won.
