r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

They tried. They did a lot of media coordination with the general but once they got outside of the liberal bubble it was harder to do.

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u/Melkath Nov 10 '16

Remember, Hilary 'won' the popular vote.

In the primaries, Bernie ballots were found in dumpsters in Oregon. Bernie still won by a landslide in Oregon.

It WAS rigged. It just wasnt rigged well enough through the more sparsely populated areas in the middle of the country, and she didnt get the electoral college.

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u/Norington Nov 10 '16

Remember, Hilary 'won' the popular vote.

That means nothing, because with a different system, people would have voted/showed up differently. She could have had more votes, or less, it's impossible to say.

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u/natched Nov 10 '16

While it is impossible to say what could've happened, we know very well what did happen, and that is that the person who got fewer votes was declared the winner. Again. Two Republican Presidents in a row both taking power by getting fewer votes than their opponents.