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Originally Posted by elphenor
if the popular vote loses, if the majority will is ignored
you can't go and tout that as a failure of democracy
it's like suffering brain damage in a scooter accident and blaming the helmet you didn't wear
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The electoral college is not something people are ignorant of. Dubya getting elected through electoral win but popular loss put it very much at the forefront of political discussion, and yet it still exists. If the people cared enough to make it an issue then I imagine there would have at least been an attempt to do something about it, but we're content to leave things as they are cause **** it we can still buy bread and TVs, so yeah I'd say that's democratic. The people have spoken on the electoral college, and our response is, "Meh".