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Why Donald Trump Will Likely Win A Second Term As President
HuffPost ^ | October 12, 2018 | Benjamin Waddell

Posted on 10/13/2018 4:59:55 PM PDT by EveningStar

On Oct. 6, 2018, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court by the narrowest of margins, with 50 votes in favor and 48 votes against. He is the first justice in U.S. history to be confirmed by senators representing less than half of the country (44 percent), with a majority of the population (52 percent) opposed to his nomination.

Kavanaugh is the second Supreme Court justice picked by President Donald Trump. Trump, in turn, is the second president in five elections to enter the White House after losing the popular vote. In 2000, George W. Bush lost the popular vote to Al Gore by 540,520 votes but won the Electoral College after the Supreme Court halted the Florida recount. Similarly, Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by an overwhelming 2,809,197 votes. But like Bush, Trump won the Electoral College, and thus the presidency.

The U.S. political system is institutionally rigged in favor of conservative white voters who drastically diverge from the political values of most Americans. This is why Kavanaugh was able to be confirmed by the Senate, and it’s the reason filmmaker Michael Moore, who predicted Trump’s victory in 2016, recently warned that Trump could very likely be a two-term president.

I am a scholar of migration, which wouldn’t seem to be related to the U.S. electoral system at all. However, a close look at demographic shifts in the United States over the 20th century helps us understand just how rigged America’s government is, how Trump became president and why it’s more likely than not that he’ll be re-elected in 2020.

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KEYWORDS: almamater; benjaminwaddell; kag; maga; mobrule; trump; trump2020; winning
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"Supporters of the Electoral College argue that the system insulates the executive branch from the whims of an uninformed public and balances power between sparsely populated rural states and densely populated urban states. As benign as this arrangement may seem, however, it’s steeped in the legacy of slavery, discrimination and racism. In practice, it systematically undervalues minority voters in urban areas in favor of white voters from rural counties."

OK, Ben. We get it. White people are shit.

Seriously, I have no patience with people who advocate white pride. They can go to hell. I'm against both racial pride and racial shame. But, I get you Ben. You think that doing away with the Electoral College is a great step forward. Not all of us are certain of that.

1 posted on 10/13/2018 4:59:55 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

We really need poll testing. If you can’t answer correctly 10 questions about our form of gov’t & current events you shouldn’t be allowed to vote. That ‘majority’ that didn’t want Kavanaugh were ill-informed by the media. Period. Those people should not vote.


2 posted on 10/13/2018 5:05:14 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: EveningStar

The guy forgot yo mention the real reason t the great wins he has Naga. God it is going to be fun watching libs in 2020


3 posted on 10/13/2018 5:09:59 PM PDT by genghis
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To: EveningStar

Why Donald Trump Will Likely Win A Second Term As President

because you’re f n losers

now go away


4 posted on 10/13/2018 5:11:42 PM PDT by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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To: EveningStar

You think that doing away with the Electoral College is a great step forward. Not all of us are certain of that.
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We must remind all these so called elites that the United States is NOT a pure democracy. We ARE a Democratic REPUBLIC.
Democracies fail because of the uninformed and brainwashed mobs. We are a REPUBLIC and WILL keep the Electoral College.


5 posted on 10/13/2018 5:14:10 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: EveningStar

>>>He is the first justice in U.S. history to be confirmed by senators representing less than half of the country (44 percent)<<<

Let’s see how the numbers change in November . . . ROUT!


6 posted on 10/13/2018 5:15:02 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: EveningStar

“I am a scholar of migration”

Holy shit! An expert...


7 posted on 10/13/2018 5:15:16 PM PDT by Utah Binger (At The Maynard Dixon Home and Studio)
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To: EveningStar

This person is ignorant! When the country was founded, most of the slaves and minorities were in the rural area of the country doing labor and upper class whites were in the cities. Obviously the minority/ whites living in the urban and rural area has flipped but that has happened in the last 70 years


8 posted on 10/13/2018 5:15:27 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: EveningStar; All

The U.S. political system is institutionally rigged in favor of conservative white voters who drastically diverge from the political values of most Americans.

In other words Whitey is the enemy since he too often is a patriot and supports limited government versus ‘politics in command’ government.


9 posted on 10/13/2018 5:24:53 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: EveningStar
It doesn't take an entire article to explain;

Why Donald Trump Will Likely Win A Second Term As President

Donald Trump will win re-election BECAUSE HE EARNED IT!!

10 posted on 10/13/2018 5:24:59 PM PDT by upsdriver
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To: EveningStar

I remember when Commie libs LOVED the Electoral College, that was when Dems were winning elections. The Electoral College already gives Democrats a HUGE Advantage in California and New York having the most electoral votes..a Republican needs multiple swing states to win an election and Commies are STILL bitching?


11 posted on 10/13/2018 5:32:41 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
>>>He is the first justice in U.S. history to be confirmed by senators representing less than half of the country (44 percent)<<<

By that logic, 43% Bill Clinton should have never been allowed to nominate a Supreme Court Justice.

Let alone two.

12 posted on 10/13/2018 5:32:59 PM PDT by digger48
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To: EveningStar

I noticed there’s no way to post comments at The Huffington Post.

Gee, I wonder why?

Could it be he wants no one to remind his readers of the Senate represents the states and house represents the people


13 posted on 10/13/2018 5:36:03 PM PDT by skepsel (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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To: EveningStar

Because the violent, anti-American, Socialist, fascists are not supported by most Americans?


14 posted on 10/13/2018 5:37:06 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: EveningStar

The change is never going to happen. No state without its consent, may be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

Good luck with it. Democrats can’t win small rural states? Not our problem. And the Democrats’ inability to win a majority of the white vote isn’t our problem either.

The Democrats political problems have nothing to do with the structure of the Senate of with the Electoral College. It has to with their hate of white voters and the way they treat them.

No constitutional amendment can address that for them.


15 posted on 10/13/2018 5:39:31 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Mollypitcher1

CORRECTION - the USA is a democratically-elected representational ‘constitutional republic.’


16 posted on 10/13/2018 5:50:48 PM PDT by JungleGoat77
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To: EveningStar

I suspect Trump will not run again. Who wants to be Presidentin’ at the age of 77?

Of course, he would never say so before the midterms. To do so would be disasterous. But he will want to clear out early, because the 2020 campaign begins in December.

I suspect that is why Nikki Haley is suddenly so keen on “spending time with her family “...


17 posted on 10/13/2018 5:57:55 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Paladin2; EveningStar

18 posted on 10/13/2018 5:58:08 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime!" - Donald J. Trump)
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To: EveningStar

What a bunch of Obamaria. Ben needs to abort himself for the cause.


19 posted on 10/13/2018 5:59:29 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Haiku Guy

Reagan was 78 when he left office. 70 is the new 50 and Trump has the stamina of a much younger man.

He will run again.


20 posted on 10/13/2018 6:00:09 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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