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The crowd was large enough to show up at the polls and get more votes for the candidate of their choice. Hillary got 2,868,691 more votes. This isn't democracy

• ajmurmann 9y ago
  And that wasn't even a candidate with a positive approval rating...
  • CalChris 9y ago
    During the election? Yeah. Before the election? No. https://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/hillary-clinton-favorable-rating https://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/hillary-clinto... Before the election she was a Senator, a Secretary of State, a First Lady and about 20 times the Most Admired Woman in America. Her unpopularity was manufactured. It says more about the electorate than the woman.
    • ajmurmann 9y ago
      That chart shows her popularity dropping starting around 2010 and her unfavorability going up big time in 2015. All before the election.
      • CalChris 9y ago
        Now why would that be? Must have been something. Not sure what it was. Maybe you can remind me. It was repeated over and over and over, endlessly. You'd think I'd be able to remember it. I'll think of it eventually.
        • ajmurmann 9y ago
          I honestly don't know. Was it the emails? Was it Benghazi? It's also totally irrelevant. During the primaries we had a single candidate with positive approval ratings. After the primaries we had to disliked candidates whose primary strength was that they weren't their opponent. Then the candidate with the higher popular vote lost. It's completely fucked!
• icelancer 9y ago
  There is more than one definition of democracy. We have never practiced that form of it and never will. Representative democracy is still a form of democracy, no matter how much people want to pine after the popular vote totals.