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> That won't be enough to get Trump another four years if he doesn't deliver during the first four. Not to be confronting but Obama got elected twice. Did he d
by drieddust 10y ago
> That won't be enough to get Trump another four years if he doesn't deliver during the first four.
Not to be confronting but Obama got elected twice. Did he delivered the first time?
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoObama probably shouldn't have been elected twice... but the Republicans ran Romney. He was nearly as hard to get excited about as Hillary. Obama, on the other hand, was very good at inspiring people. Did he deliver? Well, the economy didn't crater into a Great Depression, so kind of yes. But he left us with a not-really-recovered economy in 2012, so kind of no. Look, I may be under-rating Trump's ability to genuinely inspire trust. He may be able to bamboozle enough people into buying more empty promises and lack of substance in 2020. I just don't think the "true believers" were enough of his voters this time for him to be able to pull it off. [Edit: If, by some stroke of insanity, the Democrats run Hillary again in 2020, Trump may well win.]
- mangodrunk 10y agoLet's also not forget that Trump lost the popular vote, so if we didn't have this arcane system, he would have lost. The majority of people (who at least voted, I imagine most people who didn't vote would have gone with the Democrat) didn't vote for him. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/dec/12/donald-trump/donald-trumps-electoral-college-victory-was-not-ma/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/dec/...