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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsImagine if Clinton won the electoral college, Trump the popular vote
Just imagine the reaction nationwide from the Trump supporters.
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Imagine if Clinton won the electoral college, Trump the popular vote (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Dec 2016
OP
spanone
(135,832 posts)1. lawsuits in every state. 'rigged, rigged, rigged'
'crooked Hillary stole the election' tweets non-stop
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)2. Shit would be on fire
CincyDem
(6,358 posts)3. Nico Machiavelli summed it up nicely in 15th Century Florence.
Saying, in effect, people will always fight harder to keep what they have than to get what they don't. Trump supporters, at the core, are fighting demographics to keep white privilege alive and well in America. HRC supporters, at the core, are fighting for a better world that does not yet exist today.
People don't really "take to the streets" to gain, they do it to not lose.
madokie
(51,076 posts)4. Well its time we go to the streets then
cause we're fixing to lose a lot of what we've fought so hard so long to get
Kotya
(235 posts)5. Apparently, there was a concern in the Clinton camp that this might happen.
Leading to interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile encouraging the spending of money on inner-city GOTV turnout in cities like Chicago and New Orleans, states that weren't even remotely competitive.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)6. I imagine she'd step down, conceding that Trump won.
Seeing as how that's how we claim it should work.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)7. The GOP would have said:
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
treestar
(82,383 posts)8. and the M$M would be undermining her at every turn
questioning whether she was going to be legitimately the President.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)9. Yes
The msm weren't our friends were they?