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> Has democracy failed? An outsider was elected even though he was running against establishment candidates with huge money backing them. I say democracy won.

• tensor 9y ago
  You say that as though Trump doesn't have huge money backing him, not to mention foreign governments with equally deep pockets.
  • sumedh 9y ago
    Clinton had the same advantage and her war chest was bigger than Trump's.
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  • coolso 9y ago
    For the election campaign, according to Bloomberg [1] and the NY Times [2], Trump had half a billion dollars less backing him ($1.2B for Clinton, $650M for Trump) [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidential-campaign-fundraising/ https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidentia... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/politics/campaign-spending-donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/politics/campaign-spen...
• abootstrapper 9y ago
  First, I'm not sure that's a good metric to measure the success of democracy. Second, Trump lost the popular vote.
  • sumedh 9y ago
    The EC did its job https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
  • djrogers 9y ago
    To be fair, he wasn’t campaigning to win the popular vote - doing so would look entirely different from a traditional Presidential campaign. To win the popular vote a Republican candidate would spend a lot more time and money in high-population, heavily Democrat states; these states such as California and New York are largely ignored today as they are ‘locked up’.