Liberals will tell you Hillary won but in the heart of EVERY Trump supporter we KNOW who won. The PEOPLE who won and I say PEOPLE made this long awaited change happen. Democrats despise the PEOPLE. People who have made this nation GREAT. So have a listen liberals THIS is America, and WE be standing proud of those who make the effort to keep things going.
Fury
The People voted for Hillary Clinton. The weird rules we have for electing presidents trumped the will of the People.
"The weird rules we have for electing presidents trumped the will of the People."
You've had those rules for a very long time and all of a sudden you don't like those rules anymore. In typical Leftist fashion, if something doesn't go the way you want it to you want to change the rules and move the goalposts.
Nobody likes those rules, and they get questioned exactly every four years, specifically because that's when they come into play. So there's nothing "sudden" about it. I've been railing against this idiotic system steadily here for the last year.
In this particular case, 46% of the 55% of eligible voters who actually did vote, installed the Orangeman who came in second. And if anybody's wondering ---- 46% of 55% is 25%. That's who won the election --- 25%.
And yes you read that right ---only 55% of our electorate bothered to vote. That's another effect of the inane system ---- it makes the idea of voting absolutely pointless for millions of voters, so they don't bother. And then we end up with................. this.
If you removed the Electoral College though then only the large American States with the largest populations would be represented, this would disenfranchise millions of people who live in the smaller American States.
So if a candidate won New York, California, Illinois and New Jersey in the Popular Vote, the election would be over.
Nope, not how it would work at all.
Take California and New York, just because they're oft-cited examples and because I know the numbers. Over six million voters in those states voted for Rump, yet had their votes tossed in the trash by the inane "winner take all" system. That's not all --- with such a low turnout there were millions more who didn't bother to vote, uncountable among them being those who didn't bother because they KNEW their vote wasn't going to count. Even those who voted for Clinton wasted their time, because the state was already going to do that whether they voted for Rump, voted for Clinton, or voted for nobody at all. So IF voters had a reason to think their vote would actually count, a lot
more of them would show up than a pathetic 55%.
Which means, that if those Rump votes were actually counted from California and New York and Illinois and New Jersey --- he'd have a lot more to translate into Electoral Votes than what he got from them, which was Zero.
That's one --- and by no means the only one --- of the deleterious effects of the EC system as it's practiced.
Another one (and my no means the only other one) is the artificial bullshit walls it creates dividing the country into imaginary "red" states and "blue" states --- as if every last person in California is a liberal and every last person in Texas is a conservative, neither of which is true and which does both a disservice and patronizing insult. Then multiply that by fifty.
For starters.
