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Trump: I would rather have presidential election based on the popular vote
The Hill ^ | 04/26/18 | Brett Samuels

Posted on 04/26/2018 12:30:13 PM PDT by Simon Green

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To: Simon Green

I will refrain.....


21 posted on 04/26/2018 12:40:10 PM PDT by heights
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To: Simon Green

I get what he is saying, and he is not advocating to change from the electoral college. He is just saying that it would be a whole lot easier if a candidate only had to campaign in three states and could ignore the rest. That’s why we have the EC, so you cant ignore the rest.


22 posted on 04/26/2018 12:40:11 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Simon Green

EPIC TROLLING!


23 posted on 04/26/2018 12:41:49 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: PA Engineer
He’s trolling.

Yep. And he's damn good at it.

24 posted on 04/26/2018 12:42:18 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Simon Green

Dumb idea.


25 posted on 04/26/2018 12:42:39 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: kosciusko51
I think Trump is trolling the press and the Dems...

I'd say based on this thread that he's trolling us too, myself included. I hope he's only trolling us. But why would he be trolling us?

26 posted on 04/26/2018 12:43:35 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Sacajaweau

One of his techniques is to embrace the Left’s axioms & goals, driving them away from those foundational issues via their absolute imperative of “never agree with Trump”. Result is he’s gradually tearing apart their base, since they’d rather confront & beat him on any given point lest they actually work _with_ him toward a common goal. He gives them a choice of self-destruction vs empowering him; they’d rather betray their base than cooperate.


27 posted on 04/26/2018 12:44:23 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: Simon Green

What a fool. He would have lost in 2016. And if they chane it now to just popular vote based, he’d lose in 2020


28 posted on 04/26/2018 12:44:57 PM PDT by Angels27
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“He would have lost.”

He would have run a completely different campaign (as he said) and still won.


29 posted on 04/26/2018 12:45:52 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: Simon Green

Knowing full well that the electoral college is safely tucked away in the Constitution. Trump wants to watch their brains explode. It seems to be working even the Maha Rushie is freaked by Trump when he throws more chum in the water. I’m quite sure Trump knows that with a little incentive they will blow things up in time for Trump’s Deplorables to be in great shape just before the election. Something in that line about feed’em fish.


30 posted on 04/26/2018 12:46:17 PM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Better!!


31 posted on 04/26/2018 12:47:43 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: ctdonath2

How many people in California didn’t even bother to vote, because they knew the vote in that State was a foregone conclusion?


32 posted on 04/26/2018 12:47:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jiggyboy
The only people that are getting trolled are those who are taking him literally.

"[T]he press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally."

33 posted on 04/26/2018 12:47:50 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51; Sacajaweau
kosciusko51 wrote: I think Trump is trolling the press and the Dems... **Don’t you know Trump by now? He’s throwing the press a bone. Too funny....Can’t wait till Hillary declares that she won!!** I agree 100%! POTUS owns the press in a way BHO never conceived of. He creates a controversy (the media always takes the bait) then, he chuckles... Back to business, suckers! MAGA!
34 posted on 04/26/2018 12:48:46 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Simon Green

“Trump has claimed without any evidence...”

The positions of politicians are never reported with the caveat that no supporting evidence was offered, except in the case of President Trump.


35 posted on 04/26/2018 12:49:17 PM PDT by Stingray51
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To: Lurkinanloomin

he’s joking.


36 posted on 04/26/2018 12:50:00 PM PDT by blackberry1
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To: Simon Green

Relax. He is trolling Hitlery.


37 posted on 04/26/2018 12:50:04 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: Simon Green
Trump is toying with people here.

He's not saying that he prefers the popular vote over the Electoral College on the merits of it. He's only saying he prefers it because it's easier to win.

That's simply the cost-return logic of it. We all know the reason for the Electoral College is that the popular vote is too easy to win.

-PJ

38 posted on 04/26/2018 12:54:22 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Simon Green

Ditto.....Uh no!


39 posted on 04/26/2018 12:54:53 PM PDT by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Simon Green

Heeeeey... Trump says a lot of things... Oh, yeah!

40 posted on 04/26/2018 12:55:17 PM PDT by servo1969
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