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First, I'm not sure that's a good metric to measure the success of democracy. Second, Trump lost the popular vote.
by 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 agoThe EC did its job https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
- djrogers 9y agoTo 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’.