President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

What if trump was really talking about a pink Floyd album the entire time?

 

"If you take out the two big states where everybody lives ..."

 

The Republican belief that land mass, not people, is what's really important in elections is proof positive of their belief that whatever helps their side is what's real. I wonder what we'd have heard here if Clinton had lost the popular vote and won Pa., Mich., Wis. and the presidency. Never mind. I don't wonder at all.

 

Take out 60 million people's worth of states where Trump won and he got blown out.

He didn't have broader appeal. His faction just gets weighted more

 

Donald Trump will be President on Jan. 20. Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump. Both these statements are indisputably true.

 

3 million petition signers think the faithless electors are going to put her in. Totally gonna happen.

 

Very sad. Better for those horrified by Trump to wait until, you know, he becomes President and gives you something real to protest. No accident highest Obama approval rating is this weekend, after he gave Trump gracious introduction. People would prefer we call a halt to the bout until after at least college football playoff.

 

Republicans hold the presidency, the Senate, and the House. They have a majority of governors.

And they've never held so many state legislative chambers.

Sounds as if Trump campaigned against the wrong party, if the country is as f-ed up as he said it was during his campaign. The GOP, which controls the House, the Senate, governerships and state legislative chambers, has clearly made a mess of America.

 

Is there anything preventing their recruiting someone who is a multi-engine pilot?

 

OK Baron. Check out the flight path of the plane that hit the Pentagon.

 

President is the only nationally-elected office we have. Way back when the electoral college was conceived, it was because of the same argument we're having now -- that a handful of large, populous states could dominate the smaller ones. A lot of our constitution was derived with that idea in mind.
People are important, as you say, but it works both ways. When 60 or 70 percent of the counties in the country go for one candidate, yet the popular vote total is skewed by a handful of large cities and counties (notably New York City and the big California cities this time), it speaks precisely to why our system was designed the way it was. It's supposed to make candidates campaign and govern throughout the country, not just appeal to the mindset of a handful of clustered constituents.

 

All in all it works for me