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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
That stuff is obviously bad governance but it was the Dems who voted to change the needed approval for cabinet posts from 60% to a simple majority. Then you got Obama stretching the limits of executive order. Now it's the Dems protesting the electoral college. You get the wrong people in there and suddenly you remember why this stuff was in place.
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True dat. I do find it a bit odd that in the past 32 presidential elections there's only two instances of the electoral college overriding the popular vote and both times it was Dems that lost. Maybe some tweaking is in order?
As of today Clinton's up 1,437,316 votes over Trump. As a comparison, Obama beat Romney by 4,982,291 and McCain by 9,550,193. And Bush beat Kerry by 3,012,166.