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Well, I don't know....maybe because people think their actual vote should matter Why should people bother to vote if it doesn't even count. The electoral college in states shouldn't be winner take all because it doesn't represent our vote. Divide the electoral votes depending on the votes each candidate gets. That's the only real way our vote counts. I live in a blue state but there are many republicans who live here. Their votes should count too
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Originally Posted by DoomDan515
I agree. It's the same reason why I didn't bother voting.
but you see your vote DOES count, but at the state level since there is in reality NO federal election. all elections are local elections.
It's a mandate gauge. We're repeatedly told won by a "yuge" landslide, when not only he lost the popular vote, but did you know that the GOP actually LOST seats in the House? Trump won through clever campaigning. That much is fair. Hilary won a "moral victory", which means Trump may have legitimately won, but he's not as popular as you think he is. Last time the GOP assumed this was the case was when Bush was president, and your party suffered a crushing defeat in the Congress later on.
So actually, I hope the GOP does their usual overreach whenever they let victory get in their heads. Trump would have to play ball with a Democratic Congress
Has nothing to do with the topic. Grass and cows don't vote. Did you respect Obama when he was your president?
Respected the position but not the man as I didn't agree with him...and didn't riot for the next 8 years as the dems will do.
If you have a village of 10 people, and they're voting for a mayor, 8 live in town, and 2 live out on the outskirts of town on farms. You really think those 2 outskirt residents have the voting power of 5 townspeople? That's what it comes down to, literally. Sorry, but the lesson here is, people vote, not grass or dirt
OK. Then the dirt and grass in all the middle states out-voted the people on both coasts.
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Why should people bother to vote if it doesn't even count. The electoral college in states shouldn't be winner take all because it doesn't represent our vote. Divide the electoral votes depending on the votes each candidate gets. That's the only real way our vote counts. I live in a blue state but there are many republicans who live here. Their votes should count too
