Hillary Clinton: What happened

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  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,416
    I've been an electoral college opponent since before I could even vote.
  • CM189191CM189191 Minneapolis via Chicago Posts: 6,786
    I've been an electoral college opponent since before I could even vote.
    These guys keep showing up at brewery festivals around here http://www.fairvotemn.org

    FairVote Minnesota works for a healthier democracy through public education and advocacy of electoral reform. We promote inclusive voting systems that foster greater choice and a stronger voice for all voters through increased competition, participation, and representation.
     
    We advocate specifically for Ranked Choice Voting, a system proven to be more inclusive, participatory, and representative than our current first-past-the-post electoral system.  
     
    We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan grassroots organization that engages hundreds of volunteers and thousands of supporters. Together, we work to educate voters and advance electoral reform at all election levels in Minnesota.

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  • CM189191 said:
    I've been an electoral college opponent since before I could even vote.
    These guys keep showing up at brewery festivals around here http://www.fairvotemn.org

    FairVote Minnesota works for a healthier democracy through public education and advocacy of electoral reform. We promote inclusive voting systems that foster greater choice and a stronger voice for all voters through increased competition, participation, and representation.
     
    We advocate specifically for Ranked Choice Voting, a system proven to be more inclusive, participatory, and representative than our current first-past-the-post electoral system.  
     
    We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan grassroots organization that engages hundreds of volunteers and thousands of supporters. Together, we work to educate voters and advance electoral reform at all election levels in Minnesota.

    Sounds like a George Soros plot.
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  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,416
    CM189191 said:
    I've been an electoral college opponent since before I could even vote.
    These guys keep showing up at brewery festivals around here http://www.fairvotemn.org

    FairVote Minnesota works for a healthier democracy through public education and advocacy of electoral reform. We promote inclusive voting systems that foster greater choice and a stronger voice for all voters through increased competition, participation, and representation.
     
    We advocate specifically for Ranked Choice Voting, a system proven to be more inclusive, participatory, and representative than our current first-past-the-post electoral system.  
     
    We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan grassroots organization that engages hundreds of volunteers and thousands of supporters. Together, we work to educate voters and advance electoral reform at all election levels in Minnesota.

    At quick glance, I don't think I like that idea.  It's like making a college football poll.
  • MayDay10MayDay10 Posts: 11,604
    edited September 2017
    MayDay10 said:
    benjs said:
    brianlux said:
    Kat said:
    I think she did beat him and strongly. He only got in through a technicality. Cue founding fathers rolling in their graves. 

    True- the Electoral College.  Time to dump that  one.  Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe the Dems couldn't some up with a candidate that would beat a clown like Trump by a record breaking landslide.  Or maybe the American voting public really has gotten that lame in which case- good luck to us.  :frowning:
    I don't think the Electoral College is a bad thing at all, but I do think the 'winner takes all' within a State's voting population makes little sense. Why not do proportional representation within a State? D gets 48%, R gets 52%, a State has 7 seats - 7*.48 = 3.36 = 3 seats for D, 7*.52 = 3.64 = 4 seats for R. This way you can optimize the normalizing of congressional and Electoral College seats (as the method of equal proportions does quite well), while moving forward from committing a State's number of seats based on a binary decision (win or lose).
    this way has always made sense to me. winner take all is stupid to me. but the electoral college, as I've stated many times before, was never a problem for anyone until Trump won by it. I find it quite amazing the job that was done setting it up way back then, and it hasn't really been a question until now. 
    It was a problem in 2000 too... and 2004 where campaigning was only done in like 2 states
    I don't recall it being a problem with the EC in 2000, in that I don't remember anyone saying the EC needed to be scrapped because of that outcome. that was vote counting, plain and simple, from what I recall. 
    A lot of Americans felt disenfranchised through those 2 elections because it basically fell on Ohio and Florida.  You also had another popular vote loss with an EC winner.  I think at that time, we weren't so divided and lulled into a sense of security based on the economic prosperity and relative peace-time we experienced under Clinton.  There was also limited internet, social media, and the saturating news-cycle didn't yet fire up.  2004 it again was focused on few states.  If John Kerry convinced 66,000 more people in Cincinnati, Ohio to vote for him, he would have won, despite losing by 3,000,000 votes.   At least, in present day, there seem to be more states in play.  Still, 2/3 - 3/4 of the country is in 'fly-over' states in the presidential election.

    There was a movement recently to get State governors to agree to assign their state's electoral votes to the popular vote winner.  I believe they had some states on board with this and were lobbying in 40 different states.  This was in like 2012, not sure what happened to that. 

    Not only do you have large sections of the country who 'dont matter' in the election.... the weighting of the votes is off.  

    In New York, we have 29 Electoral Votes for 19,745,000 people.  That is 1 vote per 680,862 people.

    Wyoming has 3 Electoral Votes for 585,500 people, That is 1 vote per 195,167 people.


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  • Go BeaversGo Beavers Posts: 8,587
    CM189191 said:
    I've been an electoral college opponent since before I could even vote.
    These guys keep showing up at brewery festivals around here http://www.fairvotemn.org

    FairVote Minnesota works for a healthier democracy through public education and advocacy of electoral reform. We promote inclusive voting systems that foster greater choice and a stronger voice for all voters through increased competition, participation, and representation.
     
    We advocate specifically for Ranked Choice Voting, a system proven to be more inclusive, participatory, and representative than our current first-past-the-post electoral system.  
     
    We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan grassroots organization that engages hundreds of volunteers and thousands of supporters. Together, we work to educate voters and advance electoral reform at all election levels in Minnesota.

    At quick glance, I don't think I like that idea.  It's like making a college football poll.
    Then Alabama would rule the country. NooOoOoooo!
  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,416
    CM189191 said:
    I've been an electoral college opponent since before I could even vote.
    These guys keep showing up at brewery festivals around here http://www.fairvotemn.org

    FairVote Minnesota works for a healthier democracy through public education and advocacy of electoral reform. We promote inclusive voting systems that foster greater choice and a stronger voice for all voters through increased competition, participation, and representation.
     
    We advocate specifically for Ranked Choice Voting, a system proven to be more inclusive, participatory, and representative than our current first-past-the-post electoral system.  
     
    We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan grassroots organization that engages hundreds of volunteers and thousands of supporters. Together, we work to educate voters and advance electoral reform at all election levels in Minnesota.

    At quick glance, I don't think I like that idea.  It's like making a college football poll.
    Then Alabama would rule the country. NooOoOoooo!
    The south would rise again, for sure.
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  • benjs said:
    brianlux said:
    Kat said:
    I think she did beat him and strongly. He only got in through a technicality. Cue founding fathers rolling in their graves. 

    True- the Electoral College.  Time to dump that  one.  Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe the Dems couldn't some up with a candidate that would beat a clown like Trump by a record breaking landslide.  Or maybe the American voting public really has gotten that lame in which case- good luck to us.  :frowning:
    I don't think the Electoral College is a bad thing at all, but I do think the 'winner takes all' within a State's voting population makes little sense. Why not do proportional representation within a State? D gets 48%, R gets 52%, a State has 7 seats - 7*.48 = 3.36 = 3 seats for D, 7*.52 = 3.64 = 4 seats for R. This way you can optimize the normalizing of congressional and Electoral College seats (as the method of equal proportions does quite well), while moving forward from committing a State's number of seats based on a binary decision (win or lose).
    I think it's a very interesting issue.  If you just go popular vote, the edges of a very large country is all that matters.  If you go electoral the way it is, people in a few states matter much more than they should.  

    I honestly do not know the answer.  But I believe either system is "fair" as long as the candidates know the rules going in.  Blaming your loss on the system is only blaming the loss on your ability to understand and plan for the system.  Weak sauce.
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 35,808
    benjs said:
    brianlux said:
    Kat said:
    I think she did beat him and strongly. He only got in through a technicality. Cue founding fathers rolling in their graves. 

    True- the Electoral College.  Time to dump that  one.  Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe the Dems couldn't some up with a candidate that would beat a clown like Trump by a record breaking landslide.  Or maybe the American voting public really has gotten that lame in which case- good luck to us.  :frowning:
    I don't think the Electoral College is a bad thing at all, but I do think the 'winner takes all' within a State's voting population makes little sense. Why not do proportional representation within a State? D gets 48%, R gets 52%, a State has 7 seats - 7*.48 = 3.36 = 3 seats for D, 7*.52 = 3.64 = 4 seats for R. This way you can optimize the normalizing of congressional and Electoral College seats (as the method of equal proportions does quite well), while moving forward from committing a State's number of seats based on a binary decision (win or lose).
    I think it's a very interesting issue.  If you just go popular vote, the edges of a very large country is all that matters.  If you go electoral the way it is, people in a few states matter much more than they should.  

    I honestly do not know the answer.  But I believe either system is "fair" as long as the candidates know the rules going in.  Blaming your loss on the system is only blaming the loss on your ability to understand and plan for the system.  Weak sauce.
    agree 100%. 
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  • CM189191CM189191 Minneapolis via Chicago Posts: 6,786
    benjs said:
    brianlux said:
    Kat said:
    I think she did beat him and strongly. He only got in through a technicality. Cue founding fathers rolling in their graves. 

    True- the Electoral College.  Time to dump that  one.  Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe the Dems couldn't some up with a candidate that would beat a clown like Trump by a record breaking landslide.  Or maybe the American voting public really has gotten that lame in which case- good luck to us.  :frowning:
    I don't think the Electoral College is a bad thing at all, but I do think the 'winner takes all' within a State's voting population makes little sense. Why not do proportional representation within a State? D gets 48%, R gets 52%, a State has 7 seats - 7*.48 = 3.36 = 3 seats for D, 7*.52 = 3.64 = 4 seats for R. This way you can optimize the normalizing of congressional and Electoral College seats (as the method of equal proportions does quite well), while moving forward from committing a State's number of seats based on a binary decision (win or lose).
    I think it's a very interesting issue.  If you just go popular vote, the edges of a very large country is all that matters.  If you go electoral the way it is, people in a few states matter much more than they should.  

    I honestly do not know the answer.  But I believe either system is "fair" as long as the candidates know the rules going in.  Blaming your loss on the system is only blaming the loss on your ability to understand and plan for the system.  Weak sauce.
    Elections are fair as long as everyone understands and plays by the rules ?

    The Supreme Court Finds North Carolina's Racial Gerrymandering Unconstitutional

    Major win: Supreme Court reverses ruling that protected Virginia GOP's legislative gerrymander

    District Court Just Ruled That Texas Gerrymandering Violated the Voting Rights Act

    Wisconsin judge orders state GOP to redraw gerrymandered legislative districts

    Dems to challenge ‘partisan gerrymander’ in Michigan
    Gerrymandering in Michigan is among the nation’s worst

    Pennsylvania Lawsuit Says House Redistricting Is Partisan Gerrymander

    Analysis: Partisan gerrymandering has benefited Republicans more than Democrats

    Funny how the GOP keeps getting their hand slapped for not following the rules.
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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    CM189191 said:
    benjs said:
    brianlux said:
    Kat said:
    I think she did beat him and strongly. He only got in through a technicality. Cue founding fathers rolling in their graves. 

    True- the Electoral College.  Time to dump that  one.  Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe the Dems couldn't some up with a candidate that would beat a clown like Trump by a record breaking landslide.  Or maybe the American voting public really has gotten that lame in which case- good luck to us.  :frowning:
    I don't think the Electoral College is a bad thing at all, but I do think the 'winner takes all' within a State's voting population makes little sense. Why not do proportional representation within a State? D gets 48%, R gets 52%, a State has 7 seats - 7*.48 = 3.36 = 3 seats for D, 7*.52 = 3.64 = 4 seats for R. This way you can optimize the normalizing of congressional and Electoral College seats (as the method of equal proportions does quite well), while moving forward from committing a State's number of seats based on a binary decision (win or lose).
    I think it's a very interesting issue.  If you just go popular vote, the edges of a very large country is all that matters.  If you go electoral the way it is, people in a few states matter much more than they should.  

    I honestly do not know the answer.  But I believe either system is "fair" as long as the candidates know the rules going in.  Blaming your loss on the system is only blaming the loss on your ability to understand and plan for the system.  Weak sauce.
    Elections are fair as long as everyone understands and plays by the rules ?

    The Supreme Court Finds North Carolina's Racial Gerrymandering Unconstitutional

    Major win: Supreme Court reverses ruling that protected Virginia GOP's legislative gerrymander

    District Court Just Ruled That Texas Gerrymandering Violated the Voting Rights Act

    Wisconsin judge orders state GOP to redraw gerrymandered legislative districts

    Dems to challenge ‘partisan gerrymander’ in Michigan
    Gerrymandering in Michigan is among the nation’s worst

    Pennsylvania Lawsuit Says House Redistricting Is Partisan Gerrymander

    Analysis: Partisan gerrymandering has benefited Republicans more than Democrats

    Funny how the GOP keeps getting their hand slapped for not following the rules.
    gerrymandering and dark money are easily the two biggest obstacles to true democracy. 
  • benjsbenjs Toronto, ON Posts: 8,929
    JC29856 said:
    CM189191 said:
    benjs said:
    brianlux said:
    Kat said:
    I think she did beat him and strongly. He only got in through a technicality. Cue founding fathers rolling in their graves. 

    True- the Electoral College.  Time to dump that  one.  Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe the Dems couldn't some up with a candidate that would beat a clown like Trump by a record breaking landslide.  Or maybe the American voting public really has gotten that lame in which case- good luck to us.  :frowning:
    I don't think the Electoral College is a bad thing at all, but I do think the 'winner takes all' within a State's voting population makes little sense. Why not do proportional representation within a State? D gets 48%, R gets 52%, a State has 7 seats - 7*.48 = 3.36 = 3 seats for D, 7*.52 = 3.64 = 4 seats for R. This way you can optimize the normalizing of congressional and Electoral College seats (as the method of equal proportions does quite well), while moving forward from committing a State's number of seats based on a binary decision (win or lose).
    I think it's a very interesting issue.  If you just go popular vote, the edges of a very large country is all that matters.  If you go electoral the way it is, people in a few states matter much more than they should.  

    I honestly do not know the answer.  But I believe either system is "fair" as long as the candidates know the rules going in.  Blaming your loss on the system is only blaming the loss on your ability to understand and plan for the system.  Weak sauce.
    Elections are fair as long as everyone understands and plays by the rules ?

    The Supreme Court Finds North Carolina's Racial Gerrymandering Unconstitutional

    Major win: Supreme Court reverses ruling that protected Virginia GOP's legislative gerrymander

    District Court Just Ruled That Texas Gerrymandering Violated the Voting Rights Act

    Wisconsin judge orders state GOP to redraw gerrymandered legislative districts

    Dems to challenge ‘partisan gerrymander’ in Michigan
    Gerrymandering in Michigan is among the nation’s worst

    Pennsylvania Lawsuit Says House Redistricting Is Partisan Gerrymander

    Analysis: Partisan gerrymandering has benefited Republicans more than Democrats

    Funny how the GOP keeps getting their hand slapped for not following the rules.
    gerrymandering and dark money are easily the two biggest obstacles to true democracy. 
    What about ignorance, confirmation bias and stupidity?
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  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,821
    benjs said:
    brianlux said:
    Kat said:
    I think she did beat him and strongly. He only got in through a technicality. Cue founding fathers rolling in their graves. 

    True- the Electoral College.  Time to dump that  one.  Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe the Dems couldn't some up with a candidate that would beat a clown like Trump by a record breaking landslide.  Or maybe the American voting public really has gotten that lame in which case- good luck to us.  :frowning:
    I don't think the Electoral College is a bad thing at all, but I do think the 'winner takes all' within a State's voting population makes little sense. Why not do proportional representation within a State? D gets 48%, R gets 52%, a State has 7 seats - 7*.48 = 3.36 = 3 seats for D, 7*.52 = 3.64 = 4 seats for R. This way you can optimize the normalizing of congressional and Electoral College seats (as the method of equal proportions does quite well), while moving forward from committing a State's number of seats based on a binary decision (win or lose).
    I think it's a very interesting issue.  If you just go popular vote, the edges of a very large country is all that matters.  If you go electoral the way it is, people in a few states matter much more than they should.  

    I honestly do not know the answer.  But I believe either system is "fair" as long as the candidates know the rules going in.  Blaming your loss on the system is only blaming the loss on your ability to understand and plan for the system.  Weak sauce.

    benjs said:
    brianlux said:
    Kat said:
    I think she did beat him and strongly. He only got in through a technicality. Cue founding fathers rolling in their graves. 

    True- the Electoral College.  Time to dump that  one.  Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe the Dems couldn't some up with a candidate that would beat a clown like Trump by a record breaking landslide.  Or maybe the American voting public really has gotten that lame in which case- good luck to us.  :frowning:
    I don't think the Electoral College is a bad thing at all, but I do think the 'winner takes all' within a State's voting population makes little sense. Why not do proportional representation within a State? D gets 48%, R gets 52%, a State has 7 seats - 7*.48 = 3.36 = 3 seats for D, 7*.52 = 3.64 = 4 seats for R. This way you can optimize the normalizing of congressional and Electoral College seats (as the method of equal proportions does quite well), while moving forward from committing a State's number of seats based on a binary decision (win or lose).
    I think it's a very interesting issue.  If you just go popular vote, the edges of a very large country is all that matters.  If you go electoral the way it is, people in a few states matter much more than they should.  

    I honestly do not know the answer.  But I believe either system is "fair" as long as the candidates know the rules going in.  Blaming your loss on the system is only blaming the loss on your ability to understand and plan for the system.  Weak sauce.
    I don't think "predictable" is equivalent to "fair", particularly if we're looking at "fair" to the voters, not the candidates.
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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    benjs said:
    JC29856 said:
    CM189191 said:
    benjs said:
    brianlux said:
    Kat said:
    I think she did beat him and strongly. He only got in through a technicality. Cue founding fathers rolling in their graves. 

    True- the Electoral College.  Time to dump that  one.  Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe the Dems couldn't some up with a candidate that would beat a clown like Trump by a record breaking landslide.  Or maybe the American voting public really has gotten that lame in which case- good luck to us.  :frowning:
    I don't think the Electoral College is a bad thing at all, but I do think the 'winner takes all' within a State's voting population makes little sense. Why not do proportional representation within a State? D gets 48%, R gets 52%, a State has 7 seats - 7*.48 = 3.36 = 3 seats for D, 7*.52 = 3.64 = 4 seats for R. This way you can optimize the normalizing of congressional and Electoral College seats (as the method of equal proportions does quite well), while moving forward from committing a State's number of seats based on a binary decision (win or lose).
    I think it's a very interesting issue.  If you just go popular vote, the edges of a very large country is all that matters.  If you go electoral the way it is, people in a few states matter much more than they should.  

    I honestly do not know the answer.  But I believe either system is "fair" as long as the candidates know the rules going in.  Blaming your loss on the system is only blaming the loss on your ability to understand and plan for the system.  Weak sauce.
    Elections are fair as long as everyone understands and plays by the rules ?

    The Supreme Court Finds North Carolina's Racial Gerrymandering Unconstitutional

    Major win: Supreme Court reverses ruling that protected Virginia GOP's legislative gerrymander

    District Court Just Ruled That Texas Gerrymandering Violated the Voting Rights Act

    Wisconsin judge orders state GOP to redraw gerrymandered legislative districts

    Dems to challenge ‘partisan gerrymander’ in Michigan
    Gerrymandering in Michigan is among the nation’s worst

    Pennsylvania Lawsuit Says House Redistricting Is Partisan Gerrymander

    Analysis: Partisan gerrymandering has benefited Republicans more than Democrats

    Funny how the GOP keeps getting their hand slapped for not following the rules.
    gerrymandering and dark money are easily the two biggest obstacles to true democracy. 
    What about ignorance, confirmation bias and stupidity?
    those are difficult to quantify. those are better for message board discussions. we can easily leave districting to computer algorithms and eliminate dark money by legislation.

  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    Hillary in her book wonders where were all the women marchers solidarity passion and outrage during the election, I wondered the same.
  • Gerrymandering doesn't have that big of an effect (if any) on a presidential election does it?
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  • KatKat There's a lot to be said for nowhere. Posts: 4,769
    It sure does or they wouldn't do it. It's the very definition....
    ger·ry·man·der
    ˈjerēˌmandər/
    verb
    gerund or present participle: gerrymandering
    1. manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class.
      • achieve (a result) by manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency.
        "a total freedom to gerrymander the results they want"
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  • I'm with Cincy on this one. Gerrymandering has almost no impact on a presidential race because it all falls on state border lines and you can't draw lines for another state. On the last redraw of my state, I literally helped draw the lines with staff from our general assembly. The process is so mundane. You wouldn't believe the requests we had from members of the GA or Congress about what they wanted in their boundaries. 
    But that's where gerrymandering has the biggest impact- state general assembly and federal Congress. Then it's, "I want this side of that rode until it gets to the next block- then I want both". 
  • I'm with Cincy on this one. Gerrymandering has almost no impact on a presidential race because it all falls on state border lines and you can't draw lines for another state. On the last redraw of my state, I literally helped draw the lines with staff from our general assembly. The process is so mundane. You wouldn't believe the requests we had from members of the GA or Congress about what they wanted in their boundaries. 
    But that's where gerrymandering has the biggest impact- state general assembly and federal Congress. Then it's, "I want this side of that rode until it gets to the next block- then I want both". 
    Exactly. It affects the House of Reps races.
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  • JC29856 said:
    Hillary in her book wonders where were all the women marchers solidarity passion and outrage during the election, I wondered the same.
    It was a "technicality" that they showed up late.
  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    Hill:
    “Off I went into a frenzy of closet cleaning, long walks in the woods, playing with my dogs and, you know, my share of chardonnay,” she said. “It was a very hard transition, and I make no bones about it. I really struggled, and for the longest time, I was just totally drained. I couldn’t feel, I couldn’t think, I was just gobsmacked.”
  • Trump is an absolute master salesman, good for him, unfortunate when he cannot deliver the goods he advertised.  He was very precise at the end of campaign and deciding where to do it towards the end, to give him the necessary votes for the EC.  I think he sold the people in control of those final votes, he told them anything and everything they wanted to hear as long as they signed on the dotted line.  That is the ultimate goal of the salesman is to close the deal, no matter what. That's what he wrote his book about.  He can sell the name "Trump" even before he was elected and even after he filed bankruptcy a few times.

    Hillary is not a salesman.  I feel like we have a smarter than average (and that's a stretch) used car salesman for a president.  I think her book will be a good read!

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  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,821
    amethgr8 said:
    Trump is an absolute master salesman, good for him, unfortunate when he cannot deliver the goods he advertised.  He was very precise at the end of campaign and deciding where to do it towards the end, to give him the necessary votes for the EC.  I think he sold the people in control of those final votes, he told them anything and everything they wanted to hear as long as they signed on the dotted line.  That is the ultimate goal of the salesman is to close the deal, no matter what. That's what he wrote his book about.  He can sell the name "Trump" even before he was elected and even after he filed bankruptcy a few times.

    Hillary is not a salesman.  I feel like we have a smarter than average (and that's a stretch) used car salesman for a president.  I think her book will be a good read!

    amy
    One small correction - that's what his ghost writer wrote his book about. He didn't write a word of it. But yes to the used car salesman analogy. 
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 35,808
    if anyone thought Trump had a chance at winning, people would have come out in droves to vote for HC. when the media reports that trump had an 8% chance of winning, people think "oh well, then I don't need to bother". 
    Darwinspeed, all. 

    Cheers,

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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    if anyone thought Trump had a chance at winning, people would have come out in droves to vote for HC. when the media reports that trump had an 8% chance of winning, people think "oh well, then I don't need to bother". 
    I agree, probably happened on both sides.
    If you look at the vote totals compared to previous elections, trump received about the same as Mccain and Romney, Hilliarys total dropped compared to Obama, especially 2008.
  • CM189191CM189191 Minneapolis via Chicago Posts: 6,786
    if anyone thought Trump had a chance at winning, people would have come out in droves to vote for HC. when the media reports that trump had an 8% chance of winning, people think "oh well, then I don't need to bother". 
    why bother voting when:
    1) you're district has been gerrymandered to shiat
    2) your vote is actively being suppressed through ID legislation
    3) polling places are understaffed and have long lines
    4) early voting rules have been changed to make voting less convenient
    5) my registration was cancelled because I moved or didn't vote in the last 2 years
    6) the gotdam kkk might be hanging out
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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    what a shit/piss election! 
    on one side you have a celebrity game show host and a "dossier" about urine
    on the other side you have corruption stumbling and "conspiracies" about feces

    I'll buy the book only if Hilliary talks about wtf was going on 1 year ago today.

    https://youtu.be/3sfaOhA5Mss
  • The JugglerThe Juggler Behind that bush over there. Posts: 47,141
    ^
    Pretty sure there's a TON of corruption on the other side too
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