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LivingMetal said:
Soundwave said:

Well the first point is not really logic, it's a fact, more people did vote for Clinton. 

The second part is sure yes ... every time you have a president in power for 8 years or so there's a group of people who will automatically just vote for the "other guy" just because they feel like changing it up. 

In the case of those 80,000 votes that swung the election result basically could that have been a factor? Sure I think so. That's a very small amount of the population, but when you're talking a tiny amount like this, every little bit can swing the result. 

You're right.  The first point was not logic.  I wasn't even fact.  A more accurate statement would have been.  "Clinton won the overall vote by a huge margin. More people who voted in the United States wanted her as president than Trump."  But I digress because Iwas referring to YOUR conflict of logic in which the two statement conflicted each other.

What is your evidence, or at the very least your reason for suspecting, that more people who didn't vote wanted President Trump compared to President Clinton, when you do not dispute that of the people who did vote more wanted Clinton vs. Trump?  (If the people who didn't vote don't care at all, or are equally split, then the claim "more wanted Clinton than Trump" would still be true.  So logically you must believe that the non-voters favored Trump by a huge margin.) 

And I would argue that there is no logical conflict whatsoever between "more people wanted Clinton than Trump" and "there is a group of people that just mindlessly votes against whatever party has been in power when the second term expires".  He never said that this group was a majority of the country.  Just enough to make a swing.  Please explain how you think these two claims are in logical conflict with each other. 



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