| teamsilent13 said: Since someone is bringing up Gary Johnson, do supporters realize that he did not even get 50% of the libetarian vote. I remember people saying how candidates getting less than half the popular vote should not be president. Seems hipocritical since I think Gary Johnson only got 30 something % of the libertarian vote. |
I don't think anyone advocates that you have to at least 50% of the popular vote to be president; if that was the case, we wouldn't have had a winning candidate in the 2000 election, where 48.4% was the highest percentage reached. I'm assuming you're referring to people who argue that a popular vote should be in place over the electoral college, but they advocate for a plurality, not a majority. In a plurality, you simply have to be the candidate with the most votes.
O/T: I'm considering supporting Johnson, but I'm going to have a hard time doing so in good conscience if those stories about him trashing Petersen's pistol are true.
