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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Most people can’t stand Nikki. This guy has to be drunk when he wrote this.
Sounds like he wrote this drivel while he was living in his van down by the river.
Foley’s Folly.
Beyond absurd. Post 📫 asbsurd. Absurd ad nauseum.
Trump won the popular vote, Ed. So, you know, “democracy”. Anyone who thinks Haley could have done that is smoking the good stuff.
This publication should be renamed to “Fantasy Journal”.
“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”
Double Bag Barf Alert!
This guy should try doing standup. He’s hilarious.
Denial? A little maybe. Nah …. Weed must be legal where he lives though? Good stuff.
Americans have had their fill completely of the creature features coming out of the swamp. Besides, she would have had her ass handed to her bigly. I don’t know why “Republicans” believe the way to electoral victory is to put up squishy failure theater candidates. The most logical is they don’t really want to win, and are tasked with not only managing the decline, and also playing their role as designated Piñata for media and academia. The pay is the same.
Ad infinitum
The neocon clown everybody hates, except this author.
Icky Nikki makes me sicky. There was no phantom anti Trump Nikki voting bloc. Trump slaughtered Nikki in the primaries. End of story.
Birdbrain is finished. Kaput.
Foley coined the term “blue shift” after the 2012 election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_B._Foley
This clown invented the “blue shift” cover story for increasing Democrat party election cheating thanks to motor voter, mail in ballots, etc.
These people need to stop.
W…T…A…F?
I have no idea who this doofus is, but he is full of sht.
More likely he dropped an anvil on his head recently.
Anything we can do to minimize Trump’s victory, eh Foley? Get lost.
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