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Tommy Carcetti

(43,235 posts) Mon Mar 4, 2024, 12:53 PM Mar 4

Trump won the 2016 election on a technicality. [View all]

The majority of Americans did not vote for him; only the technical aspect that is the Electoral College saved him. (And that's not to mention the fact that even that technical win was in good part due to Russian interference and manipulation of public opinion.)

So he won on a technicality in court today.

That's just how he rolls.

When it comes to a clean fight, he still can't win. Pass it on.

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Trump won the 2016 election on a technicality. [View all] Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 OP

This is really why democracy dies, there has to be a majority of the people behind the President Walleye Mar 4 #1

Wealthy, land owners with powdered wigs... Omnipresent Mar 4 #37

Good point. I think it was Will Rogers who said something like Walleye Mar 4 #52

and slaves. Voltaire2 Mar 5 #53

Well, it's a constitutional technicality...not just some legal hairsplitting. Nt Fiendish Thingy Mar 4 #2

Still a technicality. Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #3

Bill Clinton never had a majority win in a presedential election Zeitghost Mar 4 #11

I'm not saying a president who loses the popular vote but wins the electoral vote is illegitimate. Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #16

I guess it's an interesting political fact Zeitghost Mar 4 #19

But even a wild card winning the Super Bowl... Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #23

It runs counter to your opinion Zeitghost Mar 4 #25

Answer to your question: Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #26

Not all States had binding public elections Zeitghost Mar 4 #27

1992 & 1996, Bill Clinton won popular and electoral college ffr Mar 4 #31

Yes... Zeitghost Mar 4 #33

You said: "Bill Clinton never had a majority win in a presedential election" ffr Mar 4 #48

I think you need to look up what Majority means Zeitghost Mar 4 #51

You cited Wikipedia. Dr. Strange Mar 5 #54

Clearly not a good comparison with popular vs electoral vote. triron Mar 4 #49

Did Hillary get a majority if one counts non voters? Kaleva Mar 4 #32

No doubt a majority of voters did not want Trump. Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #47

In the end.... Turbineguy Mar 4 #4

Had Hillary won, it likely would have been a technicality too. All Mixed Up Mar 4 #5

She would have certainly still had a plurality at the very least. Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #7

Let's hope he doesn't change that in November. All Mixed Up Mar 4 #15

The horse race pie just came out of the oven. Hugin Mar 4 #6

Hardly a technicality, it's been the mechanism we've elected Prez for a long time. It is frustrating at times, for sure. Silent Type Mar 4 #8

When it's a mechanism that would otherwise be declared unconstitional... Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #28

What? MichMan Mar 4 #30

Reynolds v. Sims, 373 U.S. 533 (1964) Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #34

What other Constutional requirements do you regard to be a technicality? NT mahatmakanejeeves Mar 4 #9

We purport ourselves to be a democracy (at least a representative democracy.) Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #17

So, the Senate goes too, right? NT mahatmakanejeeves Mar 4 #22

The Senate has always had problems. Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #24

Isn't that how electors are chosen? * mahatmakanejeeves Mar 4 #35

Not necessarily. Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #44

This message was self-deleted by its author Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #18

At the time of the founding, the office of president wasn't considered to be important. J_William_Ryan Mar 4 #10

House gop at the time knew he had russian support. Karadeniz Mar 4 #12

Every republican president after Ike "won" via malfeasance of one sort or another PSPS Mar 4 #13

you've diluted the meaning of the phrase 'on a technicality' to basically Voltaire2 Mar 4 #14

If our country wishes to consider itself a democracy... Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #21

He didn't "win" MorbidButterflyTat Mar 4 #20

I still believe Russian hackers together with Cambridge analytica triron Mar 4 #50

Trump won because he prevailed under the process TexasDem69 Mar 4 #29

You're confusing "winning on a technicality" with "winning illegitimately." Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #39

But you are referring to the sole deciding factor as a "technicality" TexasDem69 Mar 4 #42

Cambridge Dictionary's definition: Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #45

See this story that just coincidentally popped up on my news feed: Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #46

The Electoral College is not a technicality DavidDvorkin Mar 4 #36

That "technicality" is the election sarisataka Mar 4 #38

See Post 39. nt Tommy Carcetti Mar 4 #41

I agree with post 38 and believe it is 100% correct nt sarisataka Mar 4 #43

The electoral college needs to go LetMyPeopleVote Mar 4 #40