Posted on 01/17/2017 8:22:18 AM PST by Lorianne
Please remind people you encounter who say that Clinton won the popular vote that this is not true. Clinton DID NOT win the majority of the vote.
The majority voted for Trump or a 3rd party candidate. She lost by 3.21 million votes overall.
51.2% of voters DID NOT VOTE FOR CLINTON. They voted for someone other than Clinton.
So she did not win the popular vote.
Having said that, so what? Trump won the only votes that really count.
No, that’s not the popular vote.
The popular vote is the most votes. Clinton did not win most of the votes. Most of the votes were for someone other than Clinton.
Sorry snowflakes it’s not American idol we don’t have one popular vote we have 50 popular votes and Trump won more than 30
I agree with your “so what” entirely.
But we are talking about countering a false meme in the media and in society in general. It is a lie. It is FAKE. It should be called out (despite the fact that it should be irrelevant).
If Russia “hacked the Election”, how did Hillary get more Votes?
Simple, because Mexico hacked the Election.
Well, it’s pretty amazing to me. Especially when you consider that supposedly the 10% of voters who are swing voters decide elections. So 40% of eligible voters don’t vote and the dumbest 10% who do somehow manage to vote decide the results based on who was more able to sway them for that election.
FReegards
Well I don’t know how we would quantify the actual number of dumb voters. And that is subjective.
It’s just a hunch but I would bet most of the dumbest potential voters are in the “didn’t vote” contingent. I mean, some of them cannot even figure out how to get a ID. They probably cannot figure out how to get to a polling place, or what day the election is being held (if they are even aware that there is an election). Or they just don’t care.
I’m pretty happy with these people opting not to vote.
IT DOESN’T MATTER.
There’s this game called football.
THE RULES of this game called football stipulate that you win by scoring points.
THE RULES further stipulate that you score points by advancing the football until it crosses the goal line or you kick it through the goal posts.
Advancing the ball forward necessarily means gaining yards, but yards gained is not the measure of victory. The winning strategery is to score as many points as possible from the fewest yards gained. The objective IS NOT to gain yards, the objective is to score points. The gaining of yards is merely incidental to that process.
If a team gains more yards than its opponent but the opponent scores more points, THE RULES stipulate that the opponent wins. The losing team has NO CLAIM to victory, regardless how overwhelming their yards gained advantage might have been, and claims to the contrary have no legitimacy.
It makes no difference whatsoever how many yards Team Hitlery might have gained, because Team Trump scored more points. You can’t ask that THE RULES be changed once the contest has ended simply because you’ve lost (although that’s precisely what the Demoncrats tried to do in Florida in the Y2K POTUS election).
THE RULES stipulate that Team Trump won, done and dusted. Trump has the job, nothing’s going to change that. The Donald doesn’t give a rat’s patootie whether anyone considers his victory legitimate, and I rather doubt anyone’s opinion will slow the rate at which he continues to score points.
So stop fretting over the popular vote. Instead, redirect your efforts somewhere productive.
I agree that it doesn’t matter. It shouldn’t matter.
But what does matter is the truth. And a lie is being spread far and wide that Clinton won the popular vote. Whether it is irrelevant or not, it’s a lie and it should be countered.
Right, if more voted the % of swing voters would surely go up. But all campaign money is spent to sway the swayable, the ones who vote or not vote at all based on non-rational reasons, and usually have no political philosophy they can express. So things like personal appearance, debate performance, and perceived popularity become extremely important in swaying the most swayable. The ones who do manage to vote, but do so based on non-rational reasons. And if they do supposedly decide all elections, that means no matter the result, con or lib, pub or dem, the dumbest actually decided it.
Freegards
Well if you don't believe Hillary got millions of illegal alien, dead people and stuffed ballot votes then go ahead and be "sad".
Trump needs to wake up and point that important point out.
Who’re you going to believe? Our lies or the facts.(MSMLSD)
I live in a very liberal area, and the abhorrence of Trump, for those with little ideological leanings, was his personality. It came down to the fact that Trump is “mean”, is a “liar”, ect...
I find it difficult to understand the virulent hatred for Trump. On one hand Trump is not the worst – imagine if a clear evangelical like Cruz or Pence were President? Still, I am thinking the hate couldn’t be worse than this. Part of it of course is just how far left and crazy liberals have migrated.
So for all the love or hatred of Trump, once again, most Americans couldn’t give a flying (*&#.
Can you imagine if Cliton had won.. what we be doing right now??? It sends shivers down my spine
Well, of those who are eligible, close to 60% deigned to vote. So a little over 40% of those eligible to vote didn’t. I think it goes to show that things aren’t as dire as those who care about politics usually assume. Also it seems to me we are probably a long way from any sort of widespread civil unrest, you would think political options would be exhausted before folks took to the streets. Less than 60% of those eligible caring enough to vote isn’t exhausting peaceful options.
Freegards
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