FuckESPNdotCOM wrote:Jezter13 wrote:Do you not understand how the election process works and why this tired argument of "less than 50% of the popular vote" only proves you are a great parrot?
I know how it works. I'm saying the system is flawed. And both major candidates got less that 50% of the popular vote, but Hillary Clinton got more.
Take the 1984 election. Mondale won a paltry 13 EC votes while Reagan won 525 (~2.42% to ~97.58%). The popular vote was 54 million to 38 million (59% to 41%, all figures with rounding). So because of bullshit "winner-take-all" EC logic, it looks like Mondale had next to 0 support when he actually had about 2/5 of the voters.
You're a fucking idiot if you don't see how the EC can misrepresent the popular vote that it's actually tied to. A candidate can win the EC with just over 1/3 of the popular vote. In basically a 2-party race, that means the other major candidate won almost TWICE the amount of votes as the EC winner. That doesn't strike you as stupid? If the popular vote means nothing, which dumbass conservatives seem to think, then why have a vote open to the general public at all?
But I'm sure you'd feel the same way if Hillary won the EC with millions more Americans voting for Trump.
The system is not flawed. This election is resounding proof of why it is necessary.
If we were to allow the system you want? We would never have to vote because New York and California would lead us every year as they have the most populous by far and their sheople vote 80+ % one way. That's the only reason the numbers are as skewed as they are for Shillary.
The repugnicans in that state don't bother coming out to vote and a lot of the democunts don't have to either because they know their state cannot lose that vote. Same with Cali.
Electrical college, though that group is probably not needed anymore in terms of casting their votes for the elected, is needed because we are separate states that are picking a representative for us all and to be the deciding factor for federal umbrella policy. I sure as shit would hate if my voice was completely useless in a election.
This guarantees that we cannot be royally screwed into a monarchy and or into a dictatorship via one of two states.
Get out of the fetal position, remove your lips from your asshole and stop crying because your beloved piece of shit tyrant of a cunt lost an election. Again.
But to get back to the point of total votes? Had all the people in states like Oregon, California, New York, Washington etc felt the need to vote because it would have made a difference? Had Trump gone to those states thinking he could turn some people around? And of we could eliminate the illegal votes? It would have been a landslide in Trumps favor
But! Just as with your whining about how unfair it is your cunt lost? It is unfair that you feel we should be controlled by a few states as opposed to the population of the whole 50.