HRC - "Trump/Sanders capitalized on anger, I beat both, 3rd party ppl are crazy" (user search)
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Beet
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« on: May 29, 2017, 11:00:51 AM »

She gave this country so much, wasted her entire adult life on it, and this is how she is thanked.  Hillary is too good for America.  She's the leader America needs, but not the one it deserves.  So she'll be attacked and disparaged, but she can take it.  She's a silent guardian, our watchful protector.
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« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2017, 12:21:55 AM »

When you are involved in a campaign, third party voters are treated with contempt because you know they're basically just throwing away their vote. The opposite-candidate supporters are respected as people making a rational choice, the third party voters aren't. I've worked on campaigns and that is how it is, and you have to admit there is a logic to it. I say this as someone who, I myself have voted third party before and could again.
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« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2017, 01:20:28 PM »

Don't lecture me on the popular vote, it's a meaningless statistic that the media shouldn't even calculate. The electoral college is what matters.
False. It's extremely meaningful to get the pulse of America and see what kind of mandate an incoming president has. It's also extremely relevant that the American voters wished for a Hillary presidency only to have their choice extinguished by an outdated, silly system that we explicitly would not allow to be used for any other office at any level government.

I understand how it is revelant for opponents of the electoral college, but I support the electoral college.

The electoral college is an unelected, unaccountable body of 538 people. Why should they rule over 320 million? There is no good reason, excepting an accident of history. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2017, 02:35:25 PM »

Don't forget, Wulfric is the one who wanted a coup d'etat. He probably thought the generals would have had a mandate to pass tax cuts.
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