I didn't vote for that stiff!
Posted on 01/19/2025 3:53:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s very likely that the former South Carolina governor was more popular than Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. But our system won’t recognize it.
A s we prepare to watch Donald Trump take the oath of office Monday, it’s worth bearing in mind this fact. If America had an electoral system that elected the candidate whom a majority of America’s voters preferred when compared one-on-one to each alternative, it would be Nikki Haley, not Donald Trump, who would become the new President on January 20.
Yes, we found out in November that the American electorate preferred Trump to Kamala Harris. But it would have preferred Haley over either one. Yet the existing electoral system didn’t let the nation’s voters express this preference on their November ballots.
If it had, we can be reasonably sure that more voters would have preferred Haley to Harris. Indeed, given all the “ghost” votes that Haley received in the Republican primaries—even after dropping out of the race for the Republican nomination—she likely would have received more votes against Harris than Trump did. Haley couldn’t win the GOP nomination because she was less popular among Republican voters than Trump, but she was still more popular than him among all American voters, as polls showed at the time.
For the same reason, we can be confident that more voters in November would have favored Haley over Trump if that had been the choice on their ballots. She would have received the votes of her supporters in the primaries, plus independents who preferred her to Trump. Also, between just the two of them, she would have received the votes of Democrats who, although obviously wanting Harris to win, preferred Haley to Trump as the less objectionable Republican. Harris herself would likely have been telling Democrats to vote for Haley over...
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Who is Haley?
That would be Democrats crossing over to mess with the Republican nomination process.
They would never have voted for her in the general election.
Psilocybin
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Democracy dies from reading Edward B. Foley.
Thanks for playing, Nikita. Now just go away.
Lost me on the first sentence.
Protected...by the wisdom of our founders once again.
I didn't vote for that stiff!
Somebody been takin mushrooms. 😆
If...
This person seems to have forgotten that most of the dem voters wanted Bernie, but they got Hildabeast instead. Or that they pulled some SERIOUS shenanigans to get the potato as the candidate and subsequently the president.
The other Indian.
Edward B. Foley, also known as Ned Foley, is an American lawyer, law professor, election law scholar, and former Ohio Solicitor General.
Ohio. That explains it.
They crossed over to mess with the Republican nomination process because they knew it didn't matter who they voted for in the Democrat primary because Cankles was the designated nominee.
Too complex for a journalist to unravel...even if you spell it out for them.
she is hated throughout the reddest part of the country ... hated ...
You mean the candidate that lost to “none of the above”
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