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Offline Texacon

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Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.
« on: December 27, 2017, 02:11:02 PM »
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Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.

Perhaps this means...

1) Maybe our country is not as ****ed up as we think

2) Maybe a top priority should be to change the electoral college system before we leave this place an empty stone.

You know that saying... three strikes and you're out.
 


Oh, I love these arguments.  DUmmies, the electoral college is there so the rest of us have representation.  Let's play a game.  The queers lost the popular vote even in places like CA.  You didn't seem to like that because they weren't represented.  So you had the SCOTUS overrule everything pertaining to less than 10% of the population.

Well, guess what, we like to be represented too.  Your big city problems are not the problems all across this great country.  The electoral college was designed just for that reason, to protect me from your ... authoritarianism.  I kind of like it that way. 

You want to win elections, find someone who represents all of us, not just LA, Chicago, and NYC.


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3. I don't think the founding fathers

ever envisioned a union of states where

a) people and commerce were as mobile as they are today

(meaning the federal government is much more important today than in the late 1700s).

and

b) There would be such a disparity in the states like California and Wyoming (both in population and economic importance).


Time to rethink the electoral college AND the representation in the Senate (and even the House).


Wrong.  These are EXACTLY the reasons we have it and need it.  Educate yourself, it's not a bad thing and you won't look so stupid.  The founders were absolutely genius in the way they set up our government, we've let it get away from what it should be for far too long.

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Re: Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2017, 03:14:28 PM »
To undo the Electoral college a Constitutional amendment is required.

There is no simple "rethinking" it.

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Re: Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2017, 04:42:32 PM »
Just a reminder... Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton all just plain ol' lost. You know that saying... three strikes and you're out.

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Re: Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2017, 06:36:19 PM »
Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT won the vote that decides who lives in the Whitehouse.
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Re: Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2017, 05:13:59 AM »


You want to win elections, find someone who represents all of us, not just LA, Chicago, and NYC.
Don't forget Detroit and San Francisco!

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Re: Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2017, 09:06:44 AM »
Hey, DUmbsh*ts -

We held 51 popular vote contests on Election Day.  President Trump won far more of those popularity contests than did that Cast-Iron C-word.

President Trump won the popular vote overall.  Get over it.  Move on (dot com). 

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Re: Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2017, 09:30:50 AM »
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Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.

Perhaps this means...
  We put up big f**king losers both times. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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Re: Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2017, 09:37:50 AM »
Just a reminder.

Hillary knew full well that the electoral college determined the winner.  And she lost.

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Re: Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2017, 01:18:02 PM »
Just a reminder:

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Re: Just a reminder... both GWB and DJT lost the popular vote.
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2017, 01:42:32 PM »
Just a reminder...

Let's look even closer, at some of the cities, specifically New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

Los Angeles:
Los Angeles County
1,893,770
-  620,285
 ------------
1,273,485

New York
New York County
   515,481
-    58,935
 ------------
   456,546

Bronx County
   318,403
-    34,424
 ------------
   283,979

Kings County
   595,086
-  133,653
 ------------
   461,433

Queens County
   473,389
-  138,550
 ------------
   334,839

Chicago
Cook County
1,528,582
-  440,213
 ------------
1,088,369

Now, we add up all of those number there, and we get this:

  1,273,485
     456,546
     283,979
     461,433
     334,839
+1,088,369
---------------
3,898,651


This means that without these three cities alone, Trump would have won the popular vote by about a million votes.
« Last Edit: December 28, 2017, 01:59:45 PM by Happy Fun Ball »