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In reply to the discussion: Do DUers understand the meaning of 2million more votes? [View all]The King of Prussia
(737 posts)74. Two million more votes
In an election where the total number of votes didn't decide the election. If the election had been fought under a system where a plurality of the votes wins it everything would have been different. The campaign would have been different. More, or perhaps fewer, candidates would have stood. Individual voters' decisions about who to vote for, or whether to vote at all would sometimes have been different. Two million votes is a lot, but not compared to the size of the electorate. Would Clinton have won under that system? No-one knows.
As a Brit I think your entire focus should be on working out how you lost to the most awful, useless candidate I can remember standing for election anywhere. And then send him packing in four years' time.
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I do too. Clinton's lead is larger than the sum of all the Trump votes in almost a dozen states.
Coyotl
Nov 2016
#11
hey hey, ho ho, the electoral college has got to go... or get used to having LOSER republicans
TheFrenchRazor
Nov 2016
#73
We got killed by the effectiveness of GOP brainwashing in rural communities.
lostnfound
Nov 2016
#38
Their worldview is created from twitter and facebook fake news & 'Trumpland' was prophetic
Sunlei
Nov 2016
#43
Yeah, we got whacked upside the head by the electoral college . . . again. n/t
MrModerate
Nov 2016
#14
we got wacked because lots of people didn't want the 'status quo' system anymore or they sat out &
Sunlei
Nov 2016
#48
she won those states because of the black vote and they ARE a big part of the votes in the GE for
JI7
Nov 2016
#64
There are counties in states with More votes than registered voters, including in WI.
onecaliberal
Nov 2016
#52
Everything about this from the primaries on has been bizarre and unprecedented.
Kablooie
Nov 2016
#72