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Im not making this a political argument, just stating the fact that people absolutely had a hand in this election.
by ProAm 10y ago
Im not making this a political argument, just stating the fact that people absolutely had a hand in this election.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoJust because you're surprised, doesn't mean it was "the people". You can't have an Electoral College system in which shuffling Toledo across state lines changes the electoral outcome and credit the people for political outcomes.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoAre Michiganders still angry about that?
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoNot that I know of, but the point is that our system ought to be robust against historical and statistical flukes. If you're going to decide elections via first-past-the-post at all, you should at least make the election pass a 95% likelihood hypothesis test for difference-of-means or something.
- wcarron 10y agoI''m of the same sentiment, but I feel that even more rigor and a smaller p value should be demanded from our election methods. 99% seems like a nice number.
- thesimpsons1022 10y agois that really true? this election more than ever most voters believed they had to choose the lesser of two evils and didn't like their choices. both candidates had record disapproval ratings. i understand trump isn't a typical politician but it didn't quite seem like people got what they want... more that they voted against hillary and for a republican supreme court.