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I started this thread to point out that this election cycle has shown to the masses that MSM is not far from propaganda as evinced by the owner of the NYT having to post a "re-dedication" to that news source honestly reporting the news.
See4 has tried to derail it into a Hitlery/Dumph debate, a divisiveness debate, and a popular vote/electoral college debate.
I've tried steering him back to the main topic plenty of times but he tries to steer this post into a topic he wants (plus I assume the ever so pleasant and relevant commentary of Buckold and Babaloo) and the closest it's gotten is him saying he relies on Reuter's and AP for "news".
But I wonder is he knows who owns the Thomas Corp. or the full roster of the news reporting services "making up" the AP?
I assume that's who he is relying on for his popular vote numbers, but it's really a moot point as popular vote doesn't matter once it's been used to select the members of the electoral college.
Electoral/popular discrepancies have happened before, but no one thinks about:
"In
1824, John Quincy Adams was elected president despite not winning either the popular vote or the electoral vote. Andrew Jackson was the winner in both categories. Jackson received 38,000 more popular votes than Adams, and beat him in the electoral vote 99 to 84. Despite his victories, Jackson didn’t reach the majority 131 votes needed in the Electoral College to be declared president. In fact, neither candidate did. The decision went to the House of Representatives, which voted Adams into the White House.
In
1876, Rutherford B. Hayes won the election (by a margin of one electoral vote), but he lost the popular vote by more than 250,000 ballots to Samuel J. Tilden.
In
1888, Benjamin Harrison received 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168, winning the presidency. But Harrison lost the popular vote by more than 90,000 votes.
In
2000, George W. Bush was declared the winner of the general election and became the 43rd president, but he didn’t win the popular vote either. Al Gore holds that distinction, garnering about 540,000 more votes than Bush. However, Bush won the electoral vote, 271 to 266.
The next logical tangent they'll use is "well those are piddly numbers. Nothing like the difference THIS time!"
That would work until you compare US population today to what it was during those times. I figure it's because they still can't understand that the USA is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC that uses many democratic principles, but not a "true" democracy. e.g.
It's O.K.
If all those metropolitan areas responsible for the popular vote difference want to do away with the electoral college, why don't they just secede as Texas has threatened multiple times and California threatens to today?
I'd be happier if just the Metro areas tried that and I'd be more than willing to allow the one in my state to do so and leave the rest of the country to us "deplorables".
I wonder how long they'd be able to do it. It would take a while to get rid of the politicians their influence had elected, but after that I'd really like to see how the interstate/international trade agreements go since most of the deplorables are the same folks who grow the food.
I wouldn't expect me to be around too much longer because I'm a bigoted lump of shit not long for this earth.
Either way...nice to meet you and Rosey! Are you state cases like me?
Flerp herp-da-derrrrp!