He literally lost the election. Less US citizens voted for him and he lost, that’s not denial that’s what happened. The electoral college just decided the votes of the American public weren’t important enough to uphold because of “reasons” that I have yet to hear an explanation for
He barely lost the popular vote, and in the end the electoral college decides. It’s complete denial to act like it was a landslide. Even if you agree the electoral college is problematic it was a bad election.
If you don’t want to think about the electoral college, the popular vote has to be a landslide, not what it was in 2016.
You can even look it up and this isn’t even the first time this has happened. it’s the 4th time. It doesn’t even get the most blatant discrepancy
And the way that the electoral college was made is very much reasonable if you consider the history of the United States. When you realise that in the beginning, the US was very much like the EU is now, a loose federation of states, the structures that are in place make a lot of sense. The problem is that the US now views itself like a single unified nation instead of a federation of states, and those structures stopped making sense.
Votes matter but you also have a system in place, and if you’re necking the 50/50 vote point expect that system to matter. Going to lala land and imagining a system that isn’t how your system actually works doesn’t fix anything.
Get more people to vote
Discourage 3rd party bait picks that will never get elected because they don’t even have a local/state/anything presence
As an added bonus, you’d probably need to get people more interested in house/senate elections if you actually wanted to do anything about the electoral college. Cause it’s not being changed at the presidential level.
“won” may not be the best term for what he did with the electoral vote… I’d say he probably bought the electoral vote
Yeah, if we could not be 2016 election deniers, that be great.
Electoral college won’t change until Dems flip states like Texas or something to where the presidential seat is guaranteed every year.
If the DNC didn’t want Trump to win, they shouldn’t have put up Hillary. If the repubs didn’t want Biden to win, they shouldn’t have put up Trump.
Sadly, I think the DNC made a mistake in not setting up a replacement for Biden and letting him try for two terms.
There actually were quite a few issues in 2016 that legitimately could have caused him to win.
He literally lost the election. Less US citizens voted for him and he lost, that’s not denial that’s what happened. The electoral college just decided the votes of the American public weren’t important enough to uphold because of “reasons” that I have yet to hear an explanation for
He barely lost the popular vote, and in the end the electoral college decides. It’s complete denial to act like it was a landslide. Even if you agree the electoral college is problematic it was a bad election.
If you don’t want to think about the electoral college, the popular vote has to be a landslide, not what it was in 2016.
You can even look it up and this isn’t even the first time this has happened. it’s the 4th time. It doesn’t even get the most blatant discrepancy
So votes don’t matter and we should all just stop bothering and accept whatever happens to us? Seems like a pretty bleak outlook…
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And the way that the electoral college was made is very much reasonable if you consider the history of the United States. When you realise that in the beginning, the US was very much like the EU is now, a loose federation of states, the structures that are in place make a lot of sense. The problem is that the US now views itself like a single unified nation instead of a federation of states, and those structures stopped making sense.
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Votes matter but you also have a system in place, and if you’re necking the 50/50 vote point expect that system to matter. Going to lala land and imagining a system that isn’t how your system actually works doesn’t fix anything.
Get more people to vote
Discourage 3rd party bait picks that will never get elected because they don’t even have a local/state/anything presence
As an added bonus, you’d probably need to get people more interested in house/senate elections if you actually wanted to do anything about the electoral college. Cause it’s not being changed at the presidential level.