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Those are the rules, the election laws have been in place 200 years. They ran their campaigns on electoral college strategies (270), not by popular vote. The idea that popular vote means anything is absurd, you knew the rules Nov 7th. sour grapes
Rules? People that support Hillary?
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Originally Posted by Enigma777
He has a mandate to govern from 25% of the country. No mandate to foist unwanted policies upon the entire country.
Trump won the election. He will have a Republican Congress. I think, we the people, have sent a mandate forward, "take out the trash"!
The United States has 50 States ....... ONLY the ONE State of California should choose the President of all 50 States!!! Forget all that US Constitution stuff.
Fight the traffic? My polling place is literally across the street. Everyone has the option to vote by mail or vote early.
Nice for you. I guess all those liberals in Sacramento demanding a full paid holiday on Election Day because two hours just isn't enough time with traffic don't know what they are talking about.
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Originally Posted by Three Wolves In Snow
Dear God, how many times must this be explained.
The people do not vote for the President.
THE STATES DO.
Every state gets to have a say since every state is part of this Union.
The state of CA and the state of NY do not get to decide the election for every other state.
The majority of states voted Republican.
GET. OVER. IT.
1. The States do not vote for the president, the electoral college does. And no where in the constitution are they legally bound to vote a certain way.
2. You dont need to win the majority of states to become president.
3. I never claimed any of the above in your comment. I was responding to someone who said the urban areas win politically because of "the numbers"
In short, more people live in urban areas than in the sparsely populated country side.
Im not sure if you were being obtuse or just looking for someone to argue with, but obviously your response was out of context and failed at the point you were trying to make.
And there is a tiny bit of truth to that. After all, a lot of items take 60 votes in the senate to pass and the Republicans only have 52, counting Louisiana. So to move on some items will require 8 appeased Democrats.
But no more than 8, and I'm betting none of those freshly appeased Democrats have a California driver license.
Trump is smart. He will work to appease a few Dems.
But he ain't stupid. So he won't appease them all.
Actually, he has the 'nuclear' option ... Thanks to Harry Reid which means only a simple majority of 51 is needed!
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