• @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        The electrical college will always look different ways because winner takes all voting. It’s all that matters at the end, but a 1.5% change in the voters would have flipoed most of the battleground states. It was closer than many make it out to be

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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          611 days ago

          The fact that “closer” can be so diametrically opposed indicates a failure in the system.

          If it was close we’d have gotten, I don’t know, Mitt Romney or somebody.

          But the winner-take-all aspect means we get the dumbest, ugliest fascists ever. Just for a 1.5% difference.

          This is what a broken system looks like.

        • …60 goddamn percent of the country either voted for Trump, or didn’t vote at all, meaning they voted for Trump. Explain to me how she barely lost.