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I was thinking about that recently. JFKs assassin had extraordinary good luck. Trump's would be assassin had bad luck. It's just the universe averaging things out.
Anonymous E replied with this 1 week ago, 4 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,373,711
@previous (F)
The polls said Hillary would win the electoral college, not just the popular, and she did not.
Trump's lead in the popular vote has increased in all 3 elections, in almost every county. The NYT graphed this, and there are a small number of coastal cities that don't follow this rule, and everywhere else (even blue states, and blue counties) DO trend right 3 times in a row.
This is all despite the fact that Trump polls so low. The democrats managed to fumble the free bingo square.
Anonymous G double-posted this 1 week ago, 2 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,373,715
Tbh I’m not even rooting for either party. I don’t actually like the existence of the two party system. I’d rather have a parliamentary system than a winner take all system.
And I'm asking you why a man who is so unpopular keeps winning a bigger margin among those who do vote three times in a row.
Even if we agree that the first time he ran people didn't take him seriously, and he won on a techincality, why does he do better each time? Democrats keep getting more outraged, pushing their own people to take voting more seriously, and all that happens is his margin grows.
As much as people hate Trump, their hate for the democrats grows more and more.
Why is it that as Trump ramps up his comically evil agenda, his decline in approve is offset by an even greater distrust and disapproval of the party that opposes him?
If the democrats could swallow their pride (no homo), and take accountability for their policies and behavior they could easily defeat him. Instead they abandon the working class, act like a mob of passive-aggressive children, and preach hate toward anyone that isn't their archetype of the perfect victim.
Anonymous G replied with this 1 week ago, 25 seconds later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,373,718
Imagine having 5 or 6 parties instead of 2 parties. Then maybe we’d get a leader that doesn’t suck so much. I almost used the word president but in that system they wouldn’t be called a president.
Anonymous G double-posted this 1 week ago, 58 seconds later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,373,719
@1,373,717 (E)
That’s a really easy question to answer. Not everyone votes. Some left wing people didn’t want to vote for Kamala Harris because she supports Israel so instead of voting for her or Trump they didn’t vote at all.
Anonymous G quadruple-posted this 1 week ago, 8 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,373,721
Also, I mean, the problem with a two party system is, it doesn’t matter what party you root for, if one party "wins" at democracy, you can’t name a one party state that isn’t authoritarian. I’m just being real. It’s better if no one wins.
> That’s a really easy question to answer. Not everyone votes.
You still aren't answer why the people that do vote are picking Trump over whoever the democratic nominee is.
> Some left wing people didn’t want to vote for Kamala Harris because she supports Israel so instead of voting for her or Trump they didn’t vote at all.
Ok, so your own party hates their own candidate so much they would rather sit it out and let Trump win.
All they have to do is find one person in the party that is OK enough that your own party would come out to vote, and that they'd prefer slightly over Trump. And they can't find even one person that fits that.
It's the easiest challenge, and they fail over and over. They don't need to be perfect, just marginally better than the comically evil "fascist dictator" they want to beat. Instead the elites pick someone who can't win against Trump, someone so hated their own party stays at home.
Here's how you win: drop the undemocratic superdelegate primary system that keeps producing these results, and adopt the same system the Republicans use to pick their nominee in their primary system: one registered party memeber, one vote. No "superdelegates" who can override the will of the majority to get the billionares and elites what they want.
But the "democratic" party will never adopt the democratic primary system. Ironic!