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I don't think it's true. Democrats still don't like the electoral college even when they win. The real margin in this election would be over 5 million instead o
by dashundchen 6y ago
I don't think it's true. Democrats still don't like the electoral college even when they win. The real margin in this election would be over 5 million instead of the hundred of thousands if the EC didn't exist.
And in this case the Republican claims of misnformation and conspiracy have seemed so outlandish and baseless it's hard to take any of them seriously.
Like videos of ballots being burned, that turned out to be sample ballots printed from the internet.
Or the false rumor that ballots marked with sharpie were being disqualified in Arizona when their own election officials repeatedly cleared that claim.
Or the baseless claim that Republican observers were not present for the counting of ballots in Michigan or Pennsylvania - they were.
Or the willful misunderstanding of how ballots were being tallied and reported.
Or that mail in ballots fraudulently skewed Democratic after Trump spent months telling his supporters not to trust mail voting, then complaining when those mailin ballots were legally counted after November 3rd.
- whiteflame7000 6y agoDonald Trump also fixed Russian interference apparently... "Or the baseless claim that Republican observers were not present for the counting of ballots in Michigan or Pennsylvania - they were." - It's not baseless, there's a video of the republicans being barred from watching the vote. Are you really that naïve as to not even question why one party would insist on counting the votes unilaterally in secret and are you that much of a simpleton to think that people wouldn't cheat for a hell of a lot less? There's also that whole constitution thing that says election rules are set by the state legislature, not the Governor nor the Supreme Court. The will of the commonwealth never intended to need interpreting because it's the literal republic representation that this country is founded on. Democracies always fail when people learn they can vote themselves more money by going into unlimited debt until its no longer unlimited one day.
- jkhdigital 6y agoThe problem is that the well is completely poisoned. There are some interesting claims, and some ridiculous ones, and nobody has time to develop an informed opinion on all of them so you just find a few examples which support your priors.
- dashundchen 6y agoIf there were any real accusations I'd like to hear them. No reason for prominent GOP politicians to be shoveling these bullshit lies then. NYT talked to every states election officials and not a single one could report large scale voting fraud, certainly not enough to affect this year's presidential election.
- bitwize 6y agoSo let's say I went onto Twitter in the runup before the election and said something like "Reminder: Donald Trump hired Russian prostitutes to pee on him." Would/Should Twitter put a little "this claim is disputed" banner on this tweet? If not, why not?