Trump supporters desperate to show he won popular vote; just cut off two major population centers

Posted by | December 21, 2016 14:53 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

If we could just cut off New York and California, then Trump won the popular vote.

But no matter how terrific or yuge his Presidency may be, there will be an unshakable asterisk about his campaign: “…but he lost by almost 3 million votes,” generations of American school teachers will tell their students as a great example about the disparity of the electoral college system.

On the surface, it doesn’t delegitimize his presidency, but it’s causing some to rely on a simply preposterous argument as justification that he was really the people’s champ…

There is quite simply no more foolish argument. Yeah, if we take away these 5.8 million American voters, then Trump wins in a landslide! It’s an upset of unpresidented unprecedented proportions!

You can not just simply decide to chop off two states in our union to try and make a silly point. I get it; the electoral college is largely designed to prevent “running up the score” in firmly-aligned idealogical states. Clinton excelled in two of those states; but Trump also won 4,685,047 votes in deep red Texas. Can I arbitrarily choose to siphon off the Lonestar State?

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2 responses to Trump supporters desperate to show he won popular vote; just cut off two major population centers

  1. mea_mark December 21st, 2016 at 14:58

    Derp is now in charge of America. We are now officially becoming an idiocracy.

  2. Frank Wahl December 22nd, 2016 at 08:11

    “There is quite simply no more foolish argument.”

    Sure there is: the argument that the popular vote matters.

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