05-16-2018, 04:07 PM
(05-16-2018, 03:42 PM)bfine32 Wrote: People should really stop embarrassing themselves by pointing to popular vote. It is not how we elect a President in the United States of America and therefore the point is moot. No one in the forum knows how the popular vote would have turned out if that was the standard before the election, not one that many have chosen to employ after the election.
President Trump won the election in large part because of the policies he supports. It's OK to be mad about it; just stop embarrassing yourselves, by continually saying..."but he lost in a system we don't use"
Were I discussing the outcome of the election and saying that Clinton should have won, you would have a valid point. However, since the argument I was engaged in was regarding the public opinion on policy issues, and that is something that correlates to the popular vote and not the Electoral College, it is sound logic to defer to the popular vote.
I would have been happy to not discuss the election at all given that I was discussing public opinion on policy. I did not care to embarrass anyone because their invalid arguments or their lack understanding of public opinion and its correlation to the 2016 presidential election, but I certainly am not embarrassed since, as Fred put it, I am correct.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
