« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2016, 06:49:31 pm »
We were discussing that very subject a couple of days ago in terms of Hillary. Moore and Reid love to say, "Hillary won the popular vote!" Well no. Because it was not a popular vote election.
What I mean is different elections cause different behavior in the voting population. In the electoral system, people will say, "Well, my State is always blue/red for the last 50 years, so why should I vote?"
Conversely, if you knew that every single vote counts regardless of what State you are in, as in a popular vote election, then you would have incentive to vote no matter what.
So, saying you won the 'popular vote' in an electoral contest is a canard. It is not relevant. It is like comparing apples to oranges, because there is no way to know what the result may have been if the contest had been a real popular vote election.
Saying that Hillary won the popular vote is a bait and switch. It wasn't that kind of election.
That's a very good point.
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