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2016 Postmortem

BlueMTexpat

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6. There is no way that Hillary could have won the Electoral College

Reply to rainy (Original post)

Sun Dec 4, 2016, 12:42 PM

Dec 2016

and lost the popular vote. The results in CA would have reinforced her lead.

But yes, I understand the point of your post in that Trump's people would NEVER have accepted it had the impossible situation of her winning the EC and the popular vote been the reality.

In fact, even if there is a miracle and enough votes flip in the recount and/or enough faithless electors flip to her, Trump supporters STILL won't accept it. You can bet your bottom dollar on that.

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Imagine tables turned, Trump won the popular vote and lost the electoral college. He calls for [View all] rainy Dec 2016 OP

Not much of a story...The tech scientists who were "supsicious" have already commented: jmg257 Dec 2016 #1

If you continue reading Haldermann, he goes on spooky3 Dec 2016 #9

Um, so why are Republicans filing lawsuits to stop all the recounts? SunSeeker Dec 2016 #10

Yep - agreed. More then anything recounts jmg257 Dec 2016 #11

Meanwhile, at DU, everybody would accuse him of being a sore loser Travis_0004 Dec 2016 #2

Can you imagine the shitstorm faux news would whip up? Va Lefty Dec 2016 #3

If that were the case, we'd see a massive uptick in Snarkoleptic Dec 2016 #4

... and we'd be saying that not accepting the vote is undermining the Constitution. Buzz Clik Dec 2016 #5

There is no way that Hillary could have won the Electoral College BlueMTexpat Dec 2016 #6

We'd be giving him a lot of grief for doing so oberliner Dec 2016 #7

I can only speak for myself Nwgirl503 Dec 2016 #8

We've known the media... JSup Dec 2016 #12