Subtract Cook County (Chicago) IL vote and the Los Angeles County (LA) vote, and Trump wins the popular vote.
American history and its founding describe how the minds of those debating the form and substance of the draft parts of the Constitution deliberated on the notion of democracy (popular vote). Those learned minds had studied forms of government from Ancient Greece through the Renaissance to their present day. They knew that Democracy as a form of rule had always failed yet like a political aphrodisiac it was insipid and always seemed to take hold in societies but would always progress to mob rule, anarchy, and tyranny.
Therefore, the solution was to divide democracy into smaller domains so that a general national democracy would be unlikely to take hold.
The Electoral College is one of the inventions that divides democracy into smaller domains. It serves to ensure we won’t have Chicago and Los Angeles ruling our lives.
And who is always calling for the abolition of the EC?
Why Hillary for one. And others.
And yet each and every time a general democracy has taken hold, mob rule follows as surely as night follows day.
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Like the French Revolution just a few years later.
Many people (though not FReepers) fail to understand how diametrically different were the French and American experiences. French--atheist/democracy--was a direct ancestor of communism and certainly ANTIFA.
Thanks.
I’m not seeing that.
Can’t just get rid of her votes.
Get rid of all the votes in both counties:
He still loses the popular vote.
Get rid of the difference between votes (which is really the same as above):(+2853280)
He still loses the popular.(2,868,518 - 2853280 = 15238)
L.A. County
Clinton 71.8% 2,464,364 (+1694621)
Trump 22.4% 769,743
Cook County
Clinton 73.9% 1,611,946 (+1158659)
Trump 20.8% 453,287
What am I not seeing that you are seeing ?
I am using data from here https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/