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  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Don’t you see the contradiction in “she won the popular vote” and “she was a shit candidate”?

    It’s kinda like the contradiction that Bernie could win the general election, but 12% of his voters defecting to Trump wasn’t enough to make a difference.

    Leftists are going to be shouting “the DNC is corrupt” on the gallows after Trump wins.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders–Trump_voters

    • samus12345@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Don’t you see the contradiction in “she won the popular vote” and “she was a shit candidate”?

      No, because the popular vote isn’t how US elections are won. She needed to appeal to the people in the 5 or so states that actually matter and failed to do so.

    • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Don’t you see the contradiction in “she won the popular vote” and “she was a shit candidate”?

      Both of these things can be true. If “did not vote” had been a candidate in 2016, it would have won in a landslide. Just 8 states + DC had enough voters turn out such that any candidate won more votes than there were eligible voters that didn’t bother. As a percentage of eligible voters, Clinton received 28.43% of eligible voters, with Trump trailing at 27.2% of eligible voters. While Trump outperformed Romney (2012) by 2M votes, Clinton underperformed Obama in 2012.

      As a percentage of the entire US population (including those too young or other ineligible to vote) Clinton got votes from 20.30% of the population and Trump got votes from 19.41% of people.

      They both sucked so badly that just over a quarter of eligible voters/less than a fifth of everybody was all it took to elect Trump

      (source https://brilliantmaps.com/did-not-vote/)

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        5 months ago

        TF do you think our vote was? I can’t vote any harder or some shit.

        The hilarious bit was all the shit libs backing comey during russiagate. It’s literally his fault she lost.

        • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Yeah but in their eyes it couldn’t be anything wrong with her as it was her turn so couldn’t have been his handling of anything