Posted on 11/14/2016 10:33:53 PM PST by RC one
Interesting, the American Thinker article linked above in this thread stated that those usually break heavily Republican. we’ll see, either way the electorial college decides elections and Trump clearly beat Hillary
there have been several false reports of Trump winning the popular vote spread around FR the last few days. Not sure why people do that to themselves.
trump campaigned in san diego and san jose at least.
speaking of san diego, some computer security firm ceo threatened trump’s life a few hours ago
(matt harrigan, packetsled?)
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Matt-Harrigan-PacketSled-CEO-Trump-Threats-401134605.html
That's the key for them, people who sit at home whether they're registered or not. Those names can be used, sometimes in multiple precincts, to vote and without a very fine combing through of the records after the vote no one is the wiser. There are 100,000 registered or eligible voters, 45,000 of the never bother to vote, so it's no trick at all to come up with twenty five or thirty thousand votes as soon as you know how many you need to make up for the less densely populated areas. As long as they stay under 100% of the total number of voters it's tough to get anyone to look into what happened.
If Trump likes the popular vote idea someone needs to clue him in that there has to be a standard for voting like the ones we demand other countries have before we certify an election there. That is, valid photo ID, purple finger or some other mechanism (someone years ago suggested a place on your Drivers License that would be punched when you vote, whatever) to eliminate multiple votes from a single individual, and a receipt for your vote that has a record of how you voted.
For all the hassle, a piece of paper or a marked (not punched) card is the only way right now that we have to eliminate the BS that has been the bread and butter of the democrat fascist machine for a century now. That's one reason why people who sit at home rather than voting are really doing everyone else harm even though they usually pretend they sit home because it's beneath them to vote for either candidate.
What they're really doing is aiding the vote riggers and IMHo, more often than not, they know damn well that's what they're doing and are happy about it because it gets them some feeble feeling of revenge by.
JMHo
Good thing they were mostly in California where their impact couldn’t affect anything.
remove the 3 million illegals and the 4 million dead voters on the ballot and Trump win by miles
Majority Party: House Republicans Win National 'Popular Vote' By Three Million
So how does it even make sense that Hillary would win the Presidential National Popular vote by 700K.
Who are these several million voters who voted for Hillary and voted for a Republican representative? Seems odd.
That's another reason for the EC. The red states don't have to worry about ballot stuffing in blue states.
Hillary won an overwhelming majority of votes cast by the illegals, the dead and the brain dead
How many votes were flipped from Trump?
People do not really believe that Trump received the same amount of the popular vote as john mccain and less votes than Mitt Romney, do they?
Hillary campaigned by demographics, density and the negative "gimmee" folks.
Trump campaigned hitting on a much broader "positive" base.
Deduct the fraud, you corrupt sacks of ****, and we’ll see just who won the popular vote.
discussion of “San Diego-Based CEO Apologizes for Social Media Posts Threatening President-Elect Donald Trump” here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3494337/posts
Hillary is winning big in California because of the marijuana ballot initiative that brought all her stoner supporters
3 MILLION ILLEGALS VOTED - with instructions from the
current POTUS (BHO) to go vote (for Hillary).
It’s hard to motivate yourself to vote in California elections if you’re a conservative. Nearly everything and everyone that you vote for gets turned down, time and time again.
That experience would change in a Presidential election without an Electoral College, since the country as a whole tends conservative. I suspect conservatives in CA would come out in droves to vote if that were so. Their votes would make a difference.
a popular vote election is bad. 2 wolves and a sheep decide what is for dinner.
otoh, the electoral college decided by congressional district (plus the popular vote of a state gets the two senatorial votes) like Maine and Nebraska have might be a more reasonable method.
each state gets to decide how its electors are chosen, that is in the Constitution (not that the Constitution means anything to the left)
Taking a forest view, as opposed to the tree...
America took a big step backwards in representative republic with the 17th amendment. It fundamentally broke part of the republic.
Abolishing or even tinkering with the electoral college would be another huge breakage of the republic, with bad consequences, known and I’d venture some unknown as well.
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