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America: Here you can vote for what you think is best! Democracy!
Also America: No wait not like that
Bush Jr. - got in after losing the popular vote.
Trump - got in after losing the popular vote.
Is it any wonder Republicans hate democracy?
multiple studies have shown bush would have lost 2000 had his daddy's and reagan's scotus not intervened.
And Trump would have lost in 2016 if we didn't have an archaic electoral college system that should be abolished. How can people call America a democracy when the will of the people doesn't matter? Trump says it's all rigged, and he's right. It's rigged. In his favor.
Bush even lost the electoral college.
Courts decided that election. Not even the college.
Then they put one of his lawyers on the goddamn Supreme Court...
Not quite. The Gore campaign pushed for recounting in four heavily Democratic counties. Had that been finished, Gore still would have lost. A recount of the whole state would have led to him winning though. That kinda of tells me that red counties suck at counting Democratic votes.
Watched one of them (can't remember who, it doesn't matter.)say that this abortion measure passing is why complete democracy is a bad idea.