[justlurking]

But due to the magic of the Electoral College, Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.

Which is exactly what the Electoral College was designed to do.

The Presidency isn't a popularity contest. A successful candidate must craft a platform and campaign that appeals to a coalition of states that constitute an Electoral College majority.

Without it, a candidate could concentrate their campaign and platform on the heavily-populated East and West Coasts, and overwhelm the votes of the rest in the middle of the country. That's exactly what Hillary tried to do, and it failed.

Perhaps you could learn from the experience, if you took your head out of your butt and studied history. People who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it.

[notdownwidems]

The Presidency isn't a popularity contest. A successful candidate must craft a platform and campaign that appeals to a coalition of states that constitute an Electoral College majority.

That's exactly right and exactly why I said from the beginning that the 'affordable care act', which is neither affordable nor providing of care, would be an abject failure for any number of reasons, one of the biggest being that anything this transformative MUST have buy-in from a substantial majority of the opposition in order to have any chance to work. Republicans and conservatives, along with libertarians were nearly unanimous in opposition to it, it was doomed from the start. The democrats treacherous efforts to pass it anyway just made it that much more unpalatable.