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If you are assuming Clinton and Trump are proxies for and against globalization respectively, more people (aka popular vote) actually voted for continuing globa

If you are assuming Clinton and Trump are proxies for and against globalization respectively, more people (aka popular vote) actually voted for continuing globalization.

YuriNiyazov 10y ago
Like I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934475 the popular vote is irrelevant.
- paublyrne 10y ago
  If you're saying it was a referendum then surely the popular vote does matter.
  - oh_sigh 10y ago
    Trump beat HRC by +12 points in EV votes. If that were popular votes, one would probably consider it a referendum
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cloakandswagger 10y ago
Interesting that people keep rolling out this tired meme when she only won by, what, 200k votes? Your argument isn't very powerful when the margins are so tiny; you're arguing for a technicality.
krisdol 10y ago
Clinton also stood against TPP.
- jessaustin 10y ago
  She was against it, after she was for it. No one believed her, especially since Terry McAuliffe let the cat out of the bag. [EDIT:] I'm surprised the DNC downvoted this, since McAuliffe is yet another plausible person to blame while diverting attention from their terrible and misguided primary-fixing.
- derptron 10y ago
  She flip-flopped.
- tomp 10y ago
  She only changed her stance because of pressure from Sanders. Given her "private and public policies", I didn't believe her.