• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The electrical college will always look different ways because winner takes all voting. It’s all that matters at the end, but a 1.5% change in the votes would have flipoed most of the battleground states. It was closer than many make it out to be

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      …60 goddamn percent of the country either voted for Trump, or didn’t vote at all, meaning they voted for Trump. Explain to me how she barely lost.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The fact that “closer” can be so diametrically opposed indicates a failure in the system.

      If it was close we’d have gotten, I don’t know, Mitt Romney or somebody.

      But the winner-take-all aspect means we get the dumbest, ugliest fascists ever. Just for a 1.5% difference.

      This is what a broken system looks like.