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The Batlord 12-18-2016 11:59 AM

I don't think you understand just how thinly spread our population is in vast swaths of the country. The worth of a person's vote is not decided by how few neighbors they have.

Goofle 12-18-2016 12:02 PM

I think I understand that, hence Hillary winning the popular vote. A completely irrelevant fact, but she did.

Chula Vista 12-18-2016 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1784539)

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1784488)

Clinton: 65,844,610 - 48.1%

Trump: 62,979,636 - 46.0%

So most of East Bumf*ck voted for Trump. He still lost by a massive amount.

2,864,974 votes as of today. There's 15 states that have a population smaller than that amount. :finger:

Anteater 12-18-2016 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1784522)
You can't be serious. He's in a position to profit greatly by being POTUS.

How so? You are evidently fine with politicians serving or gunning for public office taking money from our enemies for "charitable causes" based on the convo we've had so far...or at least you'll allow it as long as they're Democrats. Stop deflecting and either address the system as a whole or not at all.


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Look up "Puppet Master".
Is being purposely vague your way of hiding some kind of intellectual deficiency? Does Russia have mind control powers? Those darn Commies must be further ahead of us than we thought! They saw the future of our media giving Trump billions of dollars of free advertising and hacked everyone's brains! OMGBBQWTF


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The dude LOVES scrutiny. It's his stock and trade. And how do you know he's under stress? I think he's relishing every second of it cause he's got a rabid base of followers who truly would let him get away with shooting someone on 5th avenue.
He loves publicity: he doesn't love scrutiny. If he loved scrutiny, as I said before, he'd have never run for the presidency. Clinton didn't care because she felt she was protected and supported by her husband, Obama, CNN, etc.. Trump? He was a laughingstock from day one. If he enjoys being antagonized, why does he get so angry? I think my analysis was sound.

Frownland 12-18-2016 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1784541)
I don't think you understand just how thinly spread our population is in vast swaths of the country. The worth of a person's vote is not decided by how few neighbors they have.

It's pretty weird that people are so frustrated by the fact that more people=more votes. Still, even people that are all about the electoral college now that it favoured their candidate should recognize the fact that the winner take all system makes millions of votes absolutely pointless. Then again, if they are supporting the electoral college, I wouldn't expect them to know anything about it except for "it helps us good folk beat the dirty liberals."

Frownland 12-18-2016 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1784543)
I think I understand that, hence Hillary winning the popular vote. A completely irrelevant fact, but she did.

Why is it irrelevant?

Goofle 12-18-2016 12:07 PM

Urgh, don't lump Democrats in with Liberals. Also the electoral college is either a good or bad thing, the winner of an individual election doesn't change that.

Goofle 12-18-2016 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1784549)
Why is it irrelevant?

Because it was an election held in the United States of America.

Frownland 12-18-2016 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1784550)
Also the electoral college is either a good or bad thing, the winner of an individual election doesn't change that.

I'm talking about people who all of a sudden support the electoral college because of this single election so...

You posted that radio dj before, he was a great example of that.

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Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1784551)
Because it was an election held in the United States of America.

Elaborate on why a majority vote does not matter in the United States.

Frownland 12-18-2016 12:12 PM

Bonus points if your argument doesn't only focus on the semantic difference between a republic and a democracy.


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