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Forums - Politics Discussion - Prediction: Trump Wins Popular Vote, but Clinton Wins Electoral Vote

Mr.GameCrazy on 06 November 2016

Normally, I wouldn't post a thread like this, but I'll do it anyway with this one.

Now, here's my reason why I think this. Donald Trump has been popular at rallies, but not so much with Hillary Clinton. You would think that popularity vote correlates to electoral vote. That's usually the case, but occassionally, that's not necessarily true. In order to win the election, either candidate must have at least 270 electoral votes to win no matter how popular they are.

Example: In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore won the popular vote, but George W. Bush won the election because he had the electoral vote.

What do you think?



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PwerlvlAmy on 06 November 2016

Electoral vote has been in the bag for Hillary since she announced she was running. Its a no brainer



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vivster on 06 November 2016

Well duh, Hillary can't rig open polls.



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 06 November 2016

If they can get away with electronic vote rigging, then she'll win either way. Read the wikileaks mails and know that if it can be rigged, it will be rigged :(.



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Soundwave on 06 November 2016

Clinton is up in the popular vote too, but electoral vote is what matters and Republicans can wail and thrash about that if they want, but they said that was fair game in 2000 when Bush won so they have no legs to stand on even if that does happen.



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vivster on 06 November 2016
spurgeonryan said:
Electoral vote.. Never understood how most of the country could vote yes, but you still lose to this mysterious electoral vote.

It's the greatest democracy on earth.



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PwerlvlAmy on 06 November 2016
spurgeonryan said:
Electoral vote.. Never understood how most of the country could vote yes, but you still lose to this mysterious electoral vote.

Its just a systel to determine who the elites want into power really.  They determine who the next president is,not the people



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Mr.GameCrazy on 06 November 2016
Soundwave said:
Clinton is up in the popular vote too, but electoral vote is what matters and Republicans can wail and thrash about that if they want, but they said that was fair game in 2000 when Bush won so they have no legs to stand on even if that does happen.

Interesting. What is the percentage of each candidate's popular vote so far?



Soundwave on 06 November 2016
PwerlvlAmy said:
spurgeonryan said:
Electoral vote.. Never understood how most of the country could vote yes, but you still lose to this mysterious electoral vote.

Its just a systel to determine who the elites want into power really.  They determine who the next president is,not the people

People determine who gets into power. If Republicans lose this year, it will be because their candidate was a moron who insulted Hispanics the first day of his candidacy and has consistently alienated women (the no.1 voting block) throughout his campaign. 

It's not a "conspiracy", its basic demographics and math, something that eludes people on the right for whatever reason. 



WagnerPaiva on 06 November 2016

Either way there will be terrible civil unrest. If Hillary wins, the Trumps supporter will protest and that will scalate, if Trump wins, George Soros paid goons will cause riots and violence. Also, all SJWs are with Clinton and they are noisy.
Any way it goes, America´s big cities are going to suffer for a while.



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