North Korea threatens to withdraw from summit with Trump

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(05-16-2018, 05:24 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: There are three potentially valid answers to my question: popular, electoral, or they are both equally (ir)relevant. There is one correct answer, though, and that is the popular total.

You see, an election is just a measurement of the public opinion. The rules determining winners and losers are different for the presidential election, but the purpose of an election is for the public to provide their opinion on who will best do the job they are electing them for or for their opinion on a ballot measure. Now, there will never be a +1.0 correlation between an election and the true public opinion, that's impossible. However, the correlation between the public opinion and the popular vote total is a much stronger one than the correlation between public opinion and the EC results. This makes the popular vote results more relevant to the discussion of public opinion.

If the discussion Lucie and I were having about the actual result of the election and the EC numbers, then you would have a sound argument. But our discussion was about public opinion and how it is more liberal than who our elected officials are would have you believe. The fact that the popular vote total has a stronger correlation to public opinion than the EC results is evidence of this and so discussing how Clinton received more individual votes in election is highly relevant to the argument.

This doesn't require extensive knowledge in political science or statistics to understand.

And I gave you an answer: equally.

But you go with what you deem is the correct one and assert that a dynamic never intended to be used is more relevant than one that is. You can also further assert that she received her votes because the population that voted with her did so solely because they agreed with her stance on policy.

You are the one that introduced this irrelevant conclusion and it doesn't require extensive knowledge in emotional intelligence to understand.