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Alas, this is what The People democratically voted for; and with our current voting system, the will of us 49% who don’t want to hear it counts for nothing u_u
by Shish2k 6y ago
Alas, this is what The People democratically voted for; and with our current voting system, the will of us 49% who don’t want to hear it counts for nothing u_u
- bosswipe 6y ago53.9% of us voted against Trump.
- daenz 6y agoof the 58% of eligible voters who actually voted.
- dTal 6y agoImplying...?
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoFraud!
- SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago31.3% of the eligible population voted against Trump. 26.7% voted for him.
- Soulsbane 6y agoExactly! He didn't win the popular vote.
- krapp 6y agoThe popular vote has never mattered, and Americans have never changed that, despite having a couple of centuries of ample opportunity to do so.
- sfj 6y agoThe whole reason there is a United States of America is because each state would get a voice in choosing the president. By only going by popularity, a few select cities decide all. If it was proposed that way, the USA would never have formed and we'd have a bunch of individual separate countries.
- moeadham 6y ago“The only reason we have an application is because the original developers wrote it in COBOL. Refactoring it to the realities of the world today is blasphemy!”
- sfj 6y agoWhat is so different? Are you sure the USA would hold together if they changed the voting structure so that NY and LA ran everything?
- krapp 6y agoHow would that be worse than a few key districts in one or two swing states running everything? Presidential candidates can afford to ignore entire sections of the country because they don't matter. One could at least make the argument that the population centers should have more weight because that's where most of the people are, and those cities have the greatest financial and cultural influence. But why should, say, Iowa be as important as it seems to be in every Presidential election?
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoBecause otherwise only New York, Texas and California matter, which the framers of the Constitution decided was a bad idea. I actually like the principle of the electoral college, it reminds me that the US is in fact, a Union of States. The real issue I see are the rampant gerrymandering of the congressional districts, which have a far greater skewing effect on the results than the electoral college (well, technically the same because the congressional districts are identical to the electoral college).
- Acrobatic_Road 6y agoNobody won >50% of the popular vote.