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In reply to the discussion: Trump won the 2016 election on a technicality. [View all]ffr
(22,908 posts)48. You said: "Bill Clinton never had a majority win in a presedential election"
He still won, twice. In some forms of democratic elections, that would not be allowed. But nobody claims he won on a technicality because our presidential election doesn't require a majority vote.
You don't win a football game getting the most yards. Trump won by the well known and long established rules of the game. We need to focus on making sure that does not happen again.
Just to be clear on what you wrote. I ran a spell checker and still didn't find Plurality.
You don't win a football game getting the most yards. Trump won by the well known and long established rules of the game. We need to focus on making sure that does not happen again.
Just to be clear, so others don't misconstrue alternative facts in believing that Bill Clinton never had a majority win in a presidential election, when he DID WIN BOTH in popular vote and electoral college, by sizable margins.
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This is really why democracy dies, there has to be a majority of the people behind the President
Walleye
Mar 2024
#1
Well, it's a constitutional technicality...not just some legal hairsplitting. Nt
Fiendish Thingy
Mar 2024
#2
I'm not saying a president who loses the popular vote but wins the electoral vote is illegitimate.
Tommy Carcetti
Mar 2024
#16
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 2024
#8
When it's a mechanism that would otherwise be declared unconstitional...
Tommy Carcetti
Mar 2024
#28
What other Constutional requirements do you regard to be a technicality? NT
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2024
#9
We purport ourselves to be a democracy (at least a representative democracy.)
Tommy Carcetti
Mar 2024
#17
At the time of the founding, the office of president wasn't considered to be important.
J_William_Ryan
Mar 2024
#10
You're confusing "winning on a technicality" with "winning illegitimately."
Tommy Carcetti
Mar 2024
#39