2016 Postmortem

MineralMan

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13. Well, that was the result of our partial democracy, anyhow.

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 04:55 PM

Dec 2016

We are not a democracy, actually. We are a constitutional republic. We elect our President in an unusual way that uses electors to balance out the influence of the most populous states. That system was designed when we had far fewer states and a population of about 5 million people. It is outdated and should be replaced, in my opinion, by a national popular vote, taken in a universal election system that occurs in all 50 states, using the same ballots and the same counting system.

But, that is not how we do it, nor how we did it in 2016. We did it according to the Constitution.

We simply failed to elect Hillary Clinton under that system We could have done so, but we did not, by a small margin in about three states. We failed, not Hillary. We failed to get the votes we needed in every state. The shame is on us.

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We had an election. There was a candidate for both major parties. [View all] MineralMan Dec 2016 OP

Agree. Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #1

I don't know. MineralMan Dec 2016 #5

Are they talking about that? Txbluedog Dec 2016 #2

Not they. We. MineralMan Dec 2016 #3

That's BS Txbluedog Dec 2016 #6

Well, that will probably be the outcome. MineralMan Dec 2016 #8

If we want to continue to call ourselves a democracy Txbluedog Dec 2016 #11

Well, that was the result of our partial democracy, anyhow. MineralMan Dec 2016 #13

I agree Txbluedog Dec 2016 #17

If, and that's a big IF, we could turn out the same MineralMan Dec 2016 #18

Why didn't people pull up their Ayn Rand bootstraps and sign onto her campaign? jake335544 Dec 2016 #19

god, I just looked at it !! pangaia Dec 2016 #10

That is lower than low that you would sneaky post a link to someone's thread just to shame them mtnsnake Dec 2016 #14

I did post in that thread. Linking to other threads on MineralMan Dec 2016 #15

Normal? Really? How would you like it if someone did that to you? mtnsnake Dec 2016 #20

People have linked to posts of mine many, many times. MineralMan Dec 2016 #21

No, it's just coming up occasionally in various fantasies Amishman Dec 2016 #4

:( SonofaFidel Dec 2016 #16

I agree. The precedent it would set would be disastrous for Democrats as well. jalan48 Dec 2016 #7

The precedent it would set is... Txbluedog Dec 2016 #9

Indeed. Why even hold an election in the first place, if MineralMan Dec 2016 #12