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Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com)
mi writes: The drama is over, Donald J. Trump passed the 270 electoral votes necessary to become President. A few electors dissented, resulting in their prompt dismissal and replacement per their state's laws. Ironically, more dissenters turned on Clinton than on Trump... The sky may not be falling yet, but the Earth is already in peril.
I can only imagine the outcry, if HRC had won and the republicans were asking to ignore the votes of Americans, because they voted incorrectly. Seriously, the people who were honestly hoping that the electoral college voters would ignore the votes of the people of their states, and simply disenfranchise however many million voters it would take, just so they can get their way?
I personally think Trump will be a horrible, horrible president. I cannot imagine any good coming from his presidency. The world climate alone may never recover. My only hope is that he will do something that can get him impeached relatively quickly, before too much damage can be done. Having said that, I still cannot understand the thought process behind attempting to tell 50% of the country, "your vote doesn't count, unless you vote the way you are supposed to". If that actually happened, the utter and complete demise of any semblance of democracy in the USA would have happened, and there would either be a) a revolt, or b) a new, non-democratic country.
We don't elect presidents by popular vote in this country.
... and if we did, Trump would have likely still won. Both Hillary and Donald focused on swing states. If they had both run a national campaign to secure the popular vote, it is likely that Trump would have won more votes in blue states than Clinton would have won in red states. The blue states tend to have more concentrated media markets, with target rich concentrations of Democratic voters in metropolitan areas. Red votes tend to be much more diffuse, thinly spread out over rural areas.
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Horsehocky. Despite what the whitehouse is preaching there is no evidence of the Russian government having anything to do with rigging the election. All the evidence of the DNC rigging trying to rig the election came from Wikileaks. Which probably got all their information from inside sources.
There are not going to be any oil executive running the government. There might be one in a cabinet position, that isn't a done deal yet, but that is far from running the government. But if the price we have to pay to keep Hillary out of the whitehouse then it will be well worth the price.
There will be no global war because of Trump, that is BS and you know it. As for a loss of the current national health care, then good. Because its garbage. Besides we are not a socialist country anyway.
As for spiraling national debit, we are already in hock up to our eyeballs, mostly thanks to obama. He increased the national debit by more than all 43 presidents before him combined. As for respect on the world stage seems to me with Trump we are already seeing a increase in that respect. Hard not to with all the damage obama did to our respect.
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