Ok, so I’m a troll in the GD (i.e. Elections) forum. In fact, I quit here four years ago when I predicted Obama wouldn’t win in 2008. All I can say is the Republicans will **NOT **whine & moan about losing the electoral college but winning the popular the way the Dems did endlessly in 2000. Obama wasn’t elected, but *selected *blah blah blah, you’re not gonna here any of that this time. Why? Because the Dems majority are young, ignorant, spoiled, whiny immature voters who stamp their little feet insisting that this silly, outdated electoral college thingy doesn’t count, except now of course it’s all that ever counted (cause we won it this time!)
Oh well, I’m a Republican and I expected Obama’s first term to be a disaster. I wouldn’t call it a success but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Can put up with another four years of him (though I still know he’s just a tax & spend Democrat)…
You, uh, might want to wait for the final results before shooting your mouth off. CNN has Romney leading by less than 200 000 votes with most of California yet to report in.
According to his Twitter feed, Donald Trump is pissing and moaning and calling for revolution over the popular vote issue. You could argue that this doesn’t count as ‘whining’. But I would understand if you want to just disavow Trump altogether.
Oh my problem in wasn’t that President elect Gore won the popular vote. My problem was that multiple recounts in 2001 established that he secured a majority of votes in Florida. If your team doesn’t want to be called cheats, they should stop stealing elections and engaging in voter suppression. In the old days of Tammany Hall, the Republicans could justly complain about Democratic big city practices as well.
Grant Paulsen, Redskins Beat Reporter for 106.7 THE FAN in DC tweets: Karl Rove is upset that the popular vote is taking the backseat to the electoral college. He was Bush’s strategist in 2000. #PalpableIrony. Bloomberg View@BloombergView : GOP’ers are left boasting that Romney won the popular vote. Too bad that’s not how you win the White house. See: Gore, Al #election2012
That was the real issue, yes. But there were plenty of people bitching about the fake issue. Come on, man, we were all there.
I remember a Michael Moore book in which he wrote a dialogue with God, and God said he meant for Al Gore to be president, and that’s why he gave him the most votes. I’m not a Christian but, really? You appropriate the voice of God and then have him not understand the electoral college system?
I can’t but think a change to using the popular vote in favor of the winner-take-all state system would do anything but really hurt the Republicans. Elections would be decided by the large cities, so all campaigning would shift to there. The GOP would have to swing back to the center, and risk losing a lot of support in the states that are solid red now. Most likely it would strengthen a third party that would take more from the Right than the Left.
So I imagine there won’t be a whole lot of complaining along those lines.
Ah, yes. The Mandate. I recall a few years ago, George W. Bush won re-election by the narrowest popular margin in history, and not only did they throw around the word ‘mandate’ anyway, they said it was a mandate to gut Social Security, which Bush had not campaigned on at all. I can’t wait for the Daily Show compilation of then-vs-now mandate talk.