Back to your original point Mac---------->it had a lot to do with it in my opinion, since most regular Americans began to realize the far leftists won't take no for an answer, even at the ballot box.
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1. In how many states was gay marriage been put on the ballot and refused by the electorate? What do the leftists do? They go to court and over ride the voters of those states, and then threaten them with boycotts.
2. Did not California voters decide a few years back something at the ballot box about how not to give insurance or something to illegal aliens? What did the politically correct, leftists do? Went to court to stop the will of the people, the citizenry of that state, and FORCE them to do it the lefty way.
3. After President Obama passed the affordable care act with the help of Democrats throughout Washington; in fact, the whole country, people realized what most politically astute citizens already knew------------>keep Washington in gridlock so that legislation coming out of there would almost have to be bi-partisan. So what happened? A Republican wave occurred in 2010. Wasn't enough,, so except for the Presidency, they turned more red in 12. PC leftists solution? Pen and phone baby! We don't care what most of the country wants, we are going to be a leftist monarchy and rule, 1 man, congress doesn't count. So what happened in 14? More red, more phone and pen, we don't care say the leftists, we are PC, we know what is best for everybody. Elections do not matter, because the next republican President hasn't been born yet! Even Arizona at the border was told they could NOT enforce the law, and Obama was going to IGNORE the law.
So you see this thread here...........YOUR thread. Do they believe they had anything to do with Hillary losing? Oh no, of course not! It was the system that caused Hillary to lose, not that virtually EVERY form of government in Washington and the states has Republicans in charge has no bearing on their way of thinking being rejected. It has to be an accident. The republicans in States hold more power than they have since the turn of the century. How did that happen? Because PC Democrats only accept the will of the people when THEY WIN! If they lose, they either go to court and try and reverse it, or they ignore it all together and ram it down Americans throats anyway.
Mac, I know you are Democrat, and I believe there are GOOD Democrats. They would be considered NOT far leftists, kinda like you as opposed to Joe, lol. You also know there are good ones because Hillary didn't get any where near the votes Obama did. That means a whole lot of GOOD people that are Democrats, could NOT vote for her. Also, every Senate race that was won by Republicans had MORE votes cast for them than Trump did. Now Joe is gonna tell ya that those voters were Stein and Johnson voters' and if he does, that kinda puts him in a quandary, lol. Why? Because if those voters pushed in a Republican for Senate, (and in Rubios case it was 200,000 votes) that means it would have really been grim for Clinton in a 1v1!
But, my take that yes, some of those votes were Johnson, but a large % were Democrats who have just had enough and left the top of the ticket empty because both Clinton and Trump were both 2 nasty. Even they know that the Democratic party is now under control of the PC far left, and they have had enough too!
As far as the electoral college, were it not for that there never would have been a United States. The small states would not have joined if all the power rested totally in population areas. It was designed as was the Senate, to insure states rights and power, and as we see, the far leftists now want to dismantle that too. Why are we not surprised! All the electoral college is in reality, is 50 governors races with the winner getting all the votes for President from that state. With Republicans almost fully in charge of 34 out of the 50 states, is there any wonder far leftists are pooping themselves wanting to change the system, lol! And why did that happen? Because PC far leftists will NOT take NO for an answer, so the only way they will learn is to take them out of power, TOTALLY........which is basically what has happened.