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RE: ISIS = American army
May 29, 2020 at 3:29 pm
(May 29, 2020 at 3:23 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Yes, Winter. In the us there is a thing called the popular vote.
Quote:In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.
No; one is said to have won the "election" when one gets the majority's yes.
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RE: ISIS = American army
May 29, 2020 at 3:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2020 at 3:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Which Trump failed to do by a historic margin. Clinton got the majority's yes. I'm not sure if you're arguing that we should do it that way, or if you think that we do.
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RE: ISIS = American army
May 29, 2020 at 3:36 pm
(May 29, 2020 at 3:29 pm)WinterHold Wrote: (May 29, 2020 at 3:23 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Yes, Winter. In the us there is a thing called the popular vote.
No; one is said to have won the "election" when one gets the majority's yes.
But what you don’t seem to be able to grasp is that the majority of voters in the US voted for Mrs. Clinton. What Trump was the majority of the Electoral College votes.
Any way you slice it, most voters did not want Trump to be president.
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RE: ISIS = American army
May 29, 2020 at 3:47 pm
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2020 at 3:48 pm by WinterHold.)
Just so the reader know the mentalities of my hosts; and claim that the popular vote matters, and even used it to deny Trump his victory.
Knowing that the popular vote is a very weak defense from the members above; knowing that there are 5 presidents in U.S history who became presidents without the popular votes:
Quote:https://history.house.gov/Institution/El...l-College/
There have been other attempts to change the system, particularly after cases in which a candidate wins the popular vote, but loses in the Electoral College.
- Five times a candidate has won the popular vote and lost the election. Andrew Jackson in 1824 (to John Quincy Adams); Samuel Tilden in 1876 (to Rutherford B. Hayes); Grover Cleveland in 1888 (to Benjamin Harrison); Al Gore in 2000 (to George W. Bush); Hillary Clinton in 2016 (to Donald J. Trump).
This defense is very weak since 5 presidents -including Trump- won without popular vote, so the argument of it being "cheating, not fair...etc" are only results of facing that the law allowed a thug to rule their country.
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RE: ISIS = American army
May 29, 2020 at 3:50 pm
(May 29, 2020 at 3:47 pm)WinterHold Wrote: Just so the reader know the mentalities of my hosts; and claim that the popular vote matters, and even used it to deny Trump his victory.
Knowing that the popular vote is a very weak defense from the members above; knowing that there are 5 presidents in U.S history who became presidents without the popular votes:
Quote:https://history.house.gov/Institution/El...l-College/
There have been other attempts to change the system, particularly after cases in which a candidate wins the popular vote, but loses in the Electoral College.
- Five times a candidate has won the popular vote and lost the election. Andrew Jackson in 1824 (to John Quincy Adams); Samuel Tilden in 1876 (to Rutherford B. Hayes); Grover Cleveland in 1888 (to Benjamin Harrison); Al Gore in 2000 (to George W. Bush); Hillary Clinton in 2016 (to Donald J. Trump).
This defense is very weak since 5 presidents -including Trump- won without popular vote, so the argument of it being "cheating, not fair...etc" are only results of facing that the law allowed a thug to rule their country. Who else saw those goalposts move?
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RE: ISIS = American army
May 29, 2020 at 3:50 pm
You were plain and simply wrong. It was your contention that trump got the majority vote. He didn't.
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RE: ISIS = American army
May 29, 2020 at 4:16 pm
(May 29, 2020 at 3:50 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You were plain and simply wrong. It was your contention that trump got the majority vote. He didn't.
Don't confuse him with facts.
He'll whine like a high school.girl who had her prom tickets yanked....
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RE: ISIS = American army
May 29, 2020 at 4:26 pm
(May 28, 2020 at 4:26 am)WinterHold Wrote: In this topic, I post tribute to terrorists.
American army = ISIS, the difference is just in the outfits.
You’re tiresome.
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RE: ISIS = American army
May 29, 2020 at 4:32 pm
(May 29, 2020 at 3:47 pm)WinterHold Wrote: Just so the reader know the mentalities of my hosts; and claim that the popular vote matters, and even used it to deny Trump his victory.
Knowing that the popular vote is a very weak defense from the members above; knowing that there are 5 presidents in U.S history who became presidents without the popular votes:
Quote:https://history.house.gov/Institution/El...l-College/
There have been other attempts to change the system, particularly after cases in which a candidate wins the popular vote, but loses in the Electoral College.
- Five times a candidate has won the popular vote and lost the election. Andrew Jackson in 1824 (to John Quincy Adams); Samuel Tilden in 1876 (to Rutherford B. Hayes); Grover Cleveland in 1888 (to Benjamin Harrison); Al Gore in 2000 (to George W. Bush); Hillary Clinton in 2016 (to Donald J. Trump).
This defense is very weak since 5 presidents -including Trump- won without popular vote, so the argument of it being "cheating, not fair...etc" are only results of facing that the law allowed a thug to rule their country.
Try this, Winter. It’s dead easy and makes people think you’re a mature, sensible individual:
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RE: ISIS = American army
May 29, 2020 at 4:40 pm
This is comedy gold
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