The Popular Vote

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by I35, Jan 19, 2017.

  1. NJlonghorn

    NJlonghorn 2,500+ Posts

    If Clinton hadn't been the anointed one from the get-go, other candidates would have jumped into the mix. The nominee would have been someone like Biden or Kaine or Webb or O'Malley or maybe someone few of us have ever heard of. Without his pet issue -- "the election is rigged!!" -- Sanders never would have gained any traction.
     
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  2. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    I agree that the primary reason for Bernie Sander's success is that he was able to coalesce the anti-HRC sentiment. Without HRC, he would have had to compete with more charismatic candidates.
     
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  3. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    He's the President. However, his Russian ties and how that all unfolds will be his undoing over the next 48 months. That's where I infer the actual legitimacy issues coming from. Specifically, from those leaving the classified briefings on the Hill last week. I'm inferring that much of the hoopla around HRC from the FBI related to investigation work product and work process while they're finally being told what FBI/CIA/etc. investigative work product and work process were kept under wraps (FISA warrant?) because of confidentiality concerns.
     
  4. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    You guys are both correct. I looked at it from the perspective of the candidates who DID get in the race despite Hillary's pre-ordained status, while your analysis focuses on what could have happened absent Hillary's pre-ordainment. I think the overarching point is still that the D's did this to themselves by essentially ceding the nomination to Hillary way in advance, thus quashing true competition in the primary.

    And even with all that in her favor, an old, washed up avowed socialist still almost beat her. That should have set off major, major alarm bells in Democrat circles, but apparently it did not.
     
  5. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    That is exactly why I like the Electoral College.
     
  6. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    Be honest. You're only ***** is that your party is getting its *** kicked currently because it supports men in women's bathrooms, huge deficits, justice-involved individuals, welfare for the un-needy, quotas, stupid ideas such as "diversity is good" despite the overwhelming evidence that it creates problems, wealth transfer from those that have earned it to those that have not put in the work, the "biologically illiterate" and their goofy parades and cakes, anti-Christian stances, no borders, multiculturalism, voter fraud they want to keep by fighting against simple and easy to enact voter I.D. laws, PC speech/anti-speech, criminals instead of the police, and an economic system that has repeatedly failed in other parts of the world.
     
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  7. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    Wow. You may be correct. They may find out that a Russian hooker urinated on the Donald.:rolleyes1:
     
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