Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 01:08:02 -0700, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:

On 8/22/24 23:48, Mad Hamish wrote:
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He won the Electoral College and Hillary Clinton won the
popular vote.
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Who landed on the moon first in your timeline?
Because in this one he won the 2016 election against Hilary Clinton
but lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

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The first statement was completely true. In 2016 Hillary won the popular
vote, but scum bucket won the Electoral College. In 2020 Biden won the
popular vote by an even larger margin than Hillary and the Electoral
College.

Hiller "won" the popular vote only by a plurality. To actually /win/ a
race based on the popular vote she would have had to get a majority.

IOW, if it were the popular vote that counted, 2016 would have seen a
runoff election [1] exactly two choices: Hillary and Trump. The
expectation being that one or the other would get more that 50% of the
votes.

[1] If you are wondering "when", since Jan 6 is pending, the answer I
would suggest is: everything would move back two months. The election
would be in September. The runoff, if needed, would be in November.
The Party Convention and Primary dates would have to be adjusted as
well.

At this point, the Electoral College is the only vote that counts in the
race for President/Vice President.

That's been true since the beginning of the United States of America
(as opposed, IIRC, to the earlier confederation).

And Jules Verne landed on the moon first. Everyone knows that.

Well, Beford & Cavor did, anyway.

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