North Korea threatens to withdraw from summit with Trump

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(05-17-2018, 05:46 AM)hollodero Wrote: But it doesn't fall into that common fallacy. He uses a simple fact - 3 million more people voted for candidate A then candidate B - and concluded that in its entirety, the policies of candidate A were more popular than the policies of candidate B at that point, the margin being 3 million people. I do not see any fallacy in that rather logical conclusion.

While I agree that using the popular vote over the electoral college vote is preferrable to try to judge the voting population's opinion of candidate's policies, the problem with using the popular vote is that many voters vote for reasons OTHER than how they view a candidate's policies. Many voters voted for Clinton because of their intense dislike of Trump and how they viewed him as a person (and vice versa) and many voted for Clinton simply because she was a woman (and, I'm sure vice versa as well).