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pbmus

(12,422 posts)
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 11:04 PM Dec 2016

Reality Check: Hillary won by close to 3 million votes over the Big Con...

"Reality check: The final vote count showed Hillary Clinton won almost 3 million more votes than Trump. This is not a matter of opinion, it is statement of fact: knowable, hard, empirical truth. Yet about half of Trump voters don’t buy it."

http://thehill.com/opinion/juan-williams/311806-juan-williams-the-dangerous-erosion-of-facts

Can you guess who doesn't believe it

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Reality Check: Hillary won by close to 3 million votes over the Big Con... (Original Post) pbmus Dec 2016 OP
Glad to see this group is still around since... scscholar Dec 2016 #1
they don't buy it because they don't think black and brown votes should count . JI7 Dec 2016 #2
Hey, but the cretins "feel" like he won in a landslide, Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2016 #3
Reality check she didnt win where she needed to. bowens43 Dec 2016 #4

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
3. Hey, but the cretins "feel" like he won in a landslide,
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 01:00 AM
Dec 2016

and you know what Newt Gingrich and the RW say about that.

Fuck the facts, it's more important how the people feel.
(Oh, and by the way, we will make sure, with our massive propaganda machine, that people "feel" the way that benefits us against the Dems.)

 

bowens43

(16,064 posts)
4. Reality check she didnt win where she needed to.
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 06:43 AM
Dec 2016

yes she won the popular vote but the popular vote doesn't mean shit

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