Agreed, popular vote sounds good on paper, horrible in practice. On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 11:15:05 PM UTC-6, Perplexed wrote: > > > NO way! I'm not sure where you live, but I heard on tv last week the best > explanation for why being a democracy that elects its leaders by popular > voter only is a horrible idea. In the US, a candidate for POTUS could > promise "stuff" to New York City, Boston, Miami, Houston, L.A., Chicago, > and a handful of other huge metro areas and win the election without ever > trying to get a vote from anywhere else in the country. That's insane, and > would be especially insane in a large country like the US with so many > people who don't live in urban areas (and don't want to). > > A representative democracy prevents that. > > On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 7:29:37 PM UTC-5, brine wrote: >> >> Not that I wanted Hillary to win, but this sorta shows how the popular >> vote really should be the way to determine the outcome of an election in >> modern times ... how many times has the popular vote been usurped by the >> electoral votes ... I have been on record as being against President-Elect >> trump as well, but he will get the standard 6 months of "let's see what you >> can do" that I have given all the Presidents in my adult voting years ... >> FYI, none were able to get beyond 6 months before my personal scorn was >> raised!!! >> >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hil won the popular vote I think by 219K; currently the electoral count >>> is 279- 228 in favor of Trump, but Arizona and Michigan has not been >>> awarded yet; and Trump looks to have won both. >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 2:14 PM, geoffrey theist <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> A question . Was the popular vote that close? Or did we come out in >>>> such "yuge" numbers that we stayed ahead of the ballot stuffing by the >>>> dems? Just asking. I stayed up until I heard that Donald had won. in 2012 >>>> I >>>> went to bed with Romney leading and woke up to four more years of Barack. >>>> >>>> On Nov 9, 2016 12:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> It's a beautiful thing! >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------ >>>>> *From: *"Keith In Tampa" <[email protected]> >>>>> *To: *"PoliticalForum" <[email protected]> >>>>> *Sent: *Wednesday, November 9, 2016 1:09:23 PM >>>>> *Subject: *Winning! >>>>> >>>>> The distinction between the Midtown Hilton Hotel (Trump Victory Hall) >>>>> versus the Javitz Center in Midtown Manhatten last night/this morning: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Versus: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >>>>> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >>>>> >>>>> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >>>>> <http://www.politicalforum.com/> >>>>> * It's active and moderated. 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