I agree it's close, but I think the rest of the world must look at stats like the OP's and shake their heads.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a tyranny of the minority - but I don't think our current gov't represents the people accurately. More people vote Democrat, consistently. Yet our Supreme Court is about to be ultra-conservative for a generation, and gerrymandering has had a very undemocratic effect on the make-up of Congress (imo).
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
My response to the rest of the world would be we've had the EC in effect as long as America has been here. I'm no expert on the founding fathers but I believe they made it clear they were not big fans of direct democracy, hence why the EC was created. People are free to disagree with that of course and ultimately there are mechanisms for things to be changed.
Looking at our last seven Presidential elections in only three of them did a candidate win a majority of the vote. That to me shows a pretty evenly divided country.
Inversion Fallacy.
Yup... Your point??
We'll see.
No, it doesn't.
You're gonna be DAMN disappointed in a couple weeks when Trump wins re-election by a larger margin than he did in 2016...
what did she win?
the word win has a meaning. It related to coming out on top in a contest
We don't have a contest that includes the most runs scored in the world series and we don't have a contest involving the most votes nation wide.
everyone looks stupid continually discussing this in terms of win or lose. If this was the contest, politicians would spend more time in regions that they are unpopular in
Exactly. To win something, it has to be part of the contest. It might be interesting to keep up with such things but when it's not part of how the winner is chosen, you can't win it.
In most cases, the team that wins the SuperBowl, leads in most, if not all, of the stats. However, it's not required since the score is the only thing that matters.
You don't seem to understand how presidential elections work.
Electors don't vote their opinions or their preference; they are sworn to vote in accordance with their state's popular vote. If they don't, they are called "faithless electors".
More than half of the states and D.C. “bind” their electors. The rest of the electors may have the legal authority to vote for whomever they want, but, as See-BS News reported, faithless electors have never decided a presidential election.
Are you pretending that faithless electors caused Trump to totally triumph over the hapless Hildebeast in 2016?
Finally,
Okay, what about the other four elections? Again, we're talking about six out of seven and soon to be seven out of eight? This pattern is over the span of 28 years.
Surely, we can extrapolate some conclusions from that. If you don't like center-left, can we at least agree that it's at least center and not solid right?
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
If the premise is we are a right or left-center country based on what percentage of votes the Republican and Democratic candidates receive, and they don't receive majorities, then I don't believe they show the country leaning politically in one direction or the other.
Keep changing the names. It doesn't change the meaning.
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