Flight of the bumble bee Wrote:
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> gerryconnollymanderer2 Wrote:
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> > And he still won the presidency using a
> strategy
> > that garnered sufficient votes in the electoral
> > college. Why are you so butthurt?
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> No one was more surprised by the outcome than
> Trump. It was all a grand statistical anomaly.
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https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
why would trump be surprised at all? He is used to winning at everything. No, i think the person most surprised would be your Hillary.
The main purpose of the Electoral College as the framers of our Constitution envisioned was twofold:
It insulated the election from a potentially ill-informed general population, (dems) who did not have adequate information about the person they were choosing. It prevented populous large states from ignoring and overriding the interests of smaller states.
you like links, here are a couple more:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/11/trump-cant-win-election-america-political-earthquake
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/curtis-gans/national-popular-vote_b_1189390.html
https://www.aei.org/publication/popular-vote-plan-would-do-more-harm-than-good/
https://blog.oup.com/2016/12/three-fallacies-popular-vote-electoral-college/