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if the system was designed to prevent a popular but unfit candiate from becoming president, it's been broken since 2016.
by timpattinson 6y ago
if the system was designed to prevent a popular but unfit candiate from becoming president, it's been broken since 2016.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoNote that the Republican party is to blame too for that. (As well as the Democrat party.)
- dboreham 6y agoAnd Rupert Murdoch
- throwawayyyyyyz 6y agoNah, it was broken in 2008, and again in 2012 It started working again in '16
- nkrisc 6y agoThe winning candidate in 2016 wasn't even popular: he lost the popular vote.
- mcphage 6y agoThe popular candidate that the Electoral College prevented from becoming President was Clinton, it just turns out it's easier for an unfit candidate to win via the Electoral College than it is for an unfit candidate to win via the poplar vote.