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[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So you do understand that if the popular vote was the thing that mattered and not the electoral college, Trump would’ve lost in 2016?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes,. that is why I said:

Small rural states have an outsized impact as long as a candidate has a plurality of the votes. Something like 25% of the total national votes is all that is needed to win the presidency in the most extreme case. That is how the Republicans have won the presidency without the popular vote twice in the last few decades.

Do you have a brain injury?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You seem to.

What the fuck are you trying to argue? My point for the entire time has been that unlike modern first world democracies, the US uses indirect elections, ie the electoral college. This is a massive problem in democracy for the US and luckily, it can be circumvented entirely through state legislation without any need for involvement of the federal government.

Your counter-argument has been "WYYAAA WYYAAA WYAAAA". Not really clear what you're trying to say with that, so please, do elaborate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That is like saying the people in the US don’t elect the president because the Electoral College does.

I was the one who brought up the Electoral College at the start of this thread, not you.

That is like saying the people in the US don’t elect the president because the Electoral College does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Aye, you did.

That is like saying the people in the US don’t elect the president because the Electoral College does.

You wrote that as if you were being sarcastic, but what you don't realise is that it is what is happening and the fact that the US has indirect elections and still thinks of itself as the bastion of democracy is pretty ludicrous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_by_country

tldr I don't think you know what "indirect election" means