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    Default Why are Republican presidential candidates so unpopular?

    These are the percentages of the popular vote they have gained so far this century:

    .............R........D
    2000....47.9....48.4 (Dubya elected)
    2004....50.7....48.3 (a red letter year! Dubya wins a majority)
    2008....45.65...52.9 (some other guy elected)
    2012....47.2....51.1 (again)
    2016....46.1....48.2 (Trump elected)
    2020....46.9....51.3 (Trump ejected, cussing)

    Presidential candidates don’t have to win a majority or even a plurality of the popular vote, of course, because (we are told) America is not a democracy. Just as well for the GOP, isn’t it?
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    A bunch of Jive-Ass Con Artists selling Snake Oil to the American Public.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    These are the percentages of the popular vote they have gained so far this century:

    .............R........D
    2000....47.9....48.4 (Dubya elected)
    2004....50.7....48.3 (a red letter year! Dubya wins a majority)
    2008....45.65...52.9 (some other guy elected)
    2012....47.2....51.1 (again)
    2016....46.1....48.2 (Trump elected)
    2020....46.9....51.3 (Trump ejected, cussing)

    Presidential candidates don’t have to win a majority or even a plurality of the popular vote, of course, because (we are told) America is not a democracy. Just as well for the GOP, isn’t it?
    Well it's not a democracy and you can stick your fingers in your ears and scream "la la la la la la" all you like it's still not a democracy no matter how long you do it.

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    The two least popular Presidents since WW 2 are in order: Harry Truman and Joke Biden. Biden appears to be well on his way to being less popular than Truman too...

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    because like five counties represent those voters.

    thats why we have an electoral college not popular vote.
    "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
    The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.

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    a bunch of young and moronic college graduates with liberal arts degrees are too stupid to think for themselves, so they listen to a bunch of other moronic liberals throw out false labels of racism and hitler and they swallow it like brand new porn starlets in their first xxx feature
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yakuda View Post
    Well it's not a democracy and you can stick your fingers in your ears and scream "la la la la la la" all you like it's still not a democracy no matter how long you do it.
    "We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow” – Eisenhower.

    “Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man” – Reagan.

    “Well it’s not a democracy” – Yakuda.


    The first two must have been Rinos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    "We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow” – Eisenhower.

    “Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man” – Reagan.

    “Well it’s not a democracy” – Yakuda.


    The first two must have been Rinos.
    they were.
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    "We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow” – Eisenhower.

    “Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man” – Reagan.

    “Well it’s not a democracy” – Yakuda.


    The first two must have been Rinos.
    "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the democracy for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all".

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    Because they are bought and everybody knows it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    The two least popular Presidents since WW 2 are in order: Harry Truman and Joke Biden. Biden appears to be well on his way to being less popular than Truman too...
    Uh, look at the polling, Biden is more popular than The defeated one.
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    why do all the stupid people live in California and New York?......
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    Uh, look at the polling, Biden is more popular than The defeated one.
    Hillary?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    why do all the stupid people live in California and New York?......
    They're stupid. It's how they find their way home, if the water is on their left or their right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yakuda View Post
    Hillary?
    I thought we were talking about presidents?
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