As always, I’m aware. Change doesn’t happen from people being quiet about things. I’ll continue to make my voice heard in regards to thinking popular vote > electoral college. Change happens from the masses making their voice heard. I can only hope it pays off. Rest is out of my hands
Even if Hillary did get more votes, the result is irrelevant. We really don’t know how the election would have turned out if the election winner was calculated as a simple vote tally.
For instance there are people in blue states who are Republicans but don’t bother to vote because there’s no chance for Trump to win their state.
There are Democrats in Red states who don’t bother to vote because Hillary had no chance to win their states.
Trump and Hillary would have campaigned almost exclusively in the coastal urban centers where population density is highest
Is that why Trump carried out the “lock her up” mantra that he spewed for months? The overwhelming amount of honest to goodness evidence that even a GOP run Congress couldn’t work with?
I think the point of pfury and H-factor bringing up the popular vote was not so much to re-litigate the “popular vote versus electoral vote” debate (which we can do elsewhere, haha) so much as to remind us that Trump was not elected on an enormous, unanimous tidal wave of support across the nation, but rather by winning a tightly contested battle, especially in the key states.
The popular vote is “meaningless” in the sense that it does not determine who takes the office, but it is still an indicator of the degree of support behind a candidate. Trump wants to know why everyone isn’t lined up behind him now, and why the media is so mean to him? It’s partly because he went into office with a lot less support (46.1% of the final popular vote) than most recent Presidents had during the election (51.1% in 2012; 52.9% in 2008; 50.7% in 2004; 47.9% in 2000; 49.2% in 1996), and hasn’t exactly struck a tone of togetherness since then. Is it really surprising that the media is going to pander some to the crowd that didn’t like him?