https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/u...-carolina.html
Strict North Carolina Voter ID Law Thwarted After Supreme Court Rejects Case
I'm not really either for or against, though I always though the electoral was a little weird. It started as a concession to get the slave states on board w/ revolution...the reasoning wasn't some sound sort of effort for "fairness" to places that didn't even really exist yet.
I think it has to look strange to the world that someone can get 3 million more votes & lose.
and the republicann party jhas cheated voters out of their rights for decades.
Its part of the reason the people of color in this country hate the republican party
People talk about margins of victory all of the time - whether they're pluralities or majorities, how they affect a mandate. Are you relatively new to politics and political analysis?
And you can bet the house that Trump would have a record # of tweets on it if it was a reverse situation, and you'd be right in line behind him.
But, it's also just fun to bring up: Hillary won the popular by 3 million+ votes. 2%. That's pretty significant.
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