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Originally Posted by kane
If you are speaking of the Electoral College, you couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, the opposite is true.
Let's look at this last election. If Hillary Clinton won 100% of the vote in California she would get somewhere in the ballpark of 11.5 - 12 million votes. There were about 129 million votes cast. Winning every vote in Cali doesn't get her anywhere near the White House.
So, let's take at look at the top 4 most populous states. That would be Cali, Texas, Florida, and New York. If one candidate won every vote in all four of those states they would end up with somewhere in the ballpark of about 37 million votes.Still, a long way from a majority.
Meanwhile, in 2000 it all came down to who won Florida. There were millions of votes that didn't matter because those people live in states where one candidate or the other won the state easily, yet we were bringing in armies of lawyers to look at dangling and pregnant chads and counting every last ballot in Florida because whoever won that one state would win it all.
The electoral college encourages people not to vote. It encourages voter fraud, voter suppression, and other shenanigans because the parties know that there are certain states that are going to be close and are very important so they get all the attention and they fight over a handful of votes while millions around the country often don't vote or don't care because they live in dark red or dark blue states.
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kane.
stop it. just use the facts of this election.
take california out of the election, like it seceded... Trump wins both the popular & the electoral. in a popular vote contest, trump won the 49 states by a cool million, with california being the sole reason libs are whining about the 3 million more people that voted for hilary & were cheated.
so in a popular vote contest, california alone would've overrided the will of 49 other states. simple as that. all because it has that massive concentration of illegals that literally turned the big red state blue over the past 20 years. documented fact.
can you imagine a recount election in a national popular vote? you have to recount all 50 states! & you only have to commit fraud in 1 huge state to win the whole thing. imagine having every state in the nation doing recounts due to a super-close race? thats crazy! with 2000, 1 state had to recount, not all 50...
in a popular vote, its a lot more easy to steal an election rigging 1 big state, vs rigging 50 states running their own elections.
just use facts when replying kane, not hypotheticals. thanks.
