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Is it worse that Clinton got 48 percent of the popular vote or McCain got 46 percent and lost - that is a much bigger disenfranchised proportion.
by stevenwoo 8y ago
Is it worse that Clinton got 48 percent of the popular vote or McCain got 46 percent and lost - that is a much bigger disenfranchised proportion.
- maxxxxx 8y agoYes. Because by definition in a presidential election there can be only one winner. In the House or Senate there is no reason to not have proportional element.
- nybble41 8y agoPresidential elections can't be proportional, true, but they could be made less polarizing. The goal should be consensus, the election of a candidate acceptable to the vast majority of the population, not someone loved by 51% but loathed by the other 49%.
- maxxxxx 8y agoIn the good old days the winner became president and the loser vice president. Maybe we should back to that. I would love a Trump/Clinton presidency.
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- sampo 8y agoThose Clinton voters still have their representatives in the House (and probably in Senate, too), so they are represented in the political system, just not in the White House.