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You, ma'am are positively correct. Critical thinking skills are lacking amongst the left. But, but, but, they blubber.
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Originally Posted by RMESMH
Not a "% of the country".....a percentage of the people who voted in this election, which is a subset of registered voters, which is a subset of adults who are eligible to vote, which is a subset "of the country".
I didn't scream fraud at all. My point is, Trump supporters are thrilled now but they will grow weary when Trump inevitably is hammered by over half the country. He only won 46.6% of the vote and people are well aware going in that a larger portion (over 2 million and more votes to count) did not want him so it only exacerbates the issue.
If we elected by popular vote, both candidates would have run completely different campaigns....different issues and in different states and who knows what the outcome would have been then?
So......face it Lefties:
Nobody cares about the popular vote.
Hell, even you wouldn't care if Hillary had won the electoral and lost the popular, so quit acting like it gives you any kind of moral high ground.
I'm not sure what is incoherent about it. The poster said it wasn't over half, I showed that the latest percentages show Trump won only 46.6%
No, you didn't. Look at your post #15 on the thread again. You wrote "The 46.6% of the country that did not vote for Trump is by the numbers".
You can babble, as you did, that the vote is the only prediction we can go by, but no predictions need to be made in this case. Voting has already occurred. A statement is either true or it isn't. Saying Trump has 46.6% of the votes counted so far is a true statement. A statement that '46.6% of counted votes = 46.6% "of the country"....' is not a true statement.
I don't think Trump actually has a political philosophy though he did run as a bit of a paleoconservative this time. I suspect he will move toward the middle figuring he can take conservative votes for granted.
Trump did win around 46%, but Clinton did not get a majority of the popular votes cast either. (I voted for Stein).
The thing is though, the Republicans have a majority of the seats in the House and the Senate, and they will get more seats in the 2018 mid-term elections. Trump will nominate, and the Senate will confirm the next Supreme Court justice giving the court a 5-4 conservative lean. From what I've read, it seems that Trump may not consider running for a second term. If so, given the mood of the majority of current voters, who could the Democrats run that could win more votes in areas in addition to New York City and Los Angeles?
I didn't vote for Trump either, but if I like his first term SCOTUS pick/picks, the opposition does worse or no better than expected in the midterms, and the things he has done seem to indicate that he is a significant favorite re re-election...I hope he doesn't fold up after one term because I'd like another four years of potential for SCOTUS picks that I like, should there be any openings.
The popular vote is the only actual measure you can base predictions on. You cannot say over half the country supports Trump when they were not even motivated to vote for him. By actual counted votes, Trump was outnumbered by Clinton, Stein, Johnson and McMullin voters with Clinton totals far surpassing Trump's and the sum total already 53.4 against Trump with more liberal areas yet to be counted - so his percentage likely decreasing from there.
You just moved the goal posts. You were talking about not liking trump and have now flipped it around to supporting trump once people pointed out that not everyone votes.
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