I support one person, one vote, why wouldn't I.
But differing from us, America has the Electoral College vote also, which Hillary lost and it's not the Popular Vote that elects the American President it's the Electoral College, so for some to keep commenting that Hillary won is ridiculous, if Hillary won as in won then why isn't she being Inaugurated next Friday?
Yes, everyone knows she lost the electoral college. But the electoral college is inherently unfair. So, why is people pointing out that Hillary won the most votes, and lamenting that Trump didn't and yet is still going to be president (the second time it's happened with three presidents) a bad thing?
Well they've had the Electoral College for a very long time and Hillary isn't the first to win the Popular Vote but lose the Electoral College and while America still has this Electoral System there is no use whining and whining about it if your candidate doesn't win under that Electoral System.
The emotionally mature thing to do is to just accept it and move on, no amount of whining is going to change that Hillary is never going to be Inaugurated.
Why shouldn't you whine?
They've had the system for a long time, and it's becoming more and more outdated as it favors the right over the left massively now. Would you be happy if your party always had to fight more than the other party in order to be able to win?
"Why shouldn't you whine?
They've had the system for a long time, and it's becoming more and more outdated as it favors the right over the left massively now. Would you be happy if your party always had to fight more than the other party in order to be able to win?"
I have read that if they removed the Electoral College then just four large States would always give one party, which in this case would be the Democratic Party the White House every time.
This is because all their candidate needs is New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California and then nothing else matters.
So the reason why they have the Electoral College is so that the smaller States and their voters aren't disenfranchised.
That's complete bull that designed to get the right wing going.
You know they were going on about the election being rigged, and all of that, then Trump won and all of a sudden they saw that the system BENEFITS them.
Now they don't want change.
It wouldn't always give one party, the Republican Party would just have to move closer to the center in order to win. This is why the right like it so much, the Democrats have to move more to the right.
Now, I'm not in favor of the system at all, I would prefer Proportional Representation for obvious reasons, it's fairer, it opens politics up to more choice and to cooperation rather than the nonsense that exists in the US right now. The partisan nonsense of both sides.
No, If you take New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California you'd have 20+40+9+12=81 million people, out of 300 million. I'm sorry, but that's like saying that it's unfair in Austria because Vienna will always choose the winner. Is it so? No, it isn't. That's just a little over 1/4 of the population of the US. It would not choose. THE PEOPLE would choose. The Republicans are scared because they realize that the hard core right Republicans are dwindling.