AIBU to wonder where Hillary is?

[Wookiecookies]

Ok, sorry in advance for posting yet another election thread in AIBU so please hide post if necessary but, after everything thats happened is anyone else really surprised that she didnt at least thank her supporters at the rally? There's been nothing from her at all!

Its just bizarre.

[YonicProbe]

I meant fair as in reasonable number if, not as in the opposite of unfair!

[PigletWasPoohsFriend]

Exactly Yonic. So would the Greens. SNP would have a lot less.

[YonicProbe]

The UK doesn't do a straight count of votes either, except for referenda.

Otherwise UKIP would have a fair number of parliamentary representatives.

[GinAndTunic]

The historical reason for having an electoral college, rather than the much more logical and sensible approach of simply counting up all the votes, is to stop a demagogue from taking power.

Wrong, wrong and wrong.

On the origins of the electoral college: "[The electoral college] sought to reconcile differing state and federal interests, provide a degree of popular participation in the election, give the less populous states some additional leverage in the process by providing “senatorial” electors, preserve the presidency as independent of Congress, and generally insulate the election process from political manipulation."

[http://www.history.com/topics/electoral-college]

[YonicProbe]

Hack

I think it would have to be if the candidate was medically unfit to serve, had been jailed or similar

[OlennasWimple]

The time for intervention was when the GOP was selecting its presidential candidate (and there were talks about black balling Trump, but ultimately I guess they worried he would run as an independent and still win)

[hackmum]

Which bit do you disagree with me about? Do you think that the electoral college should never intervene in the outcome of an election? Or do you think it should intervene in the case of a dangerously unsuitable candidate, but that Trump isn't that candidate?

[YonicProbe]

There would be zero legitimacy to any alternate pick

[YonicProbe]

I dislike trump intensely but disagree with you, hackmum.

[hackmum]

GinAndTunic: "The Democrats I know are throwing their dummies out the pram and demanding that the electoral college results be ignored."

The historical reason for having an electoral college, rather than the much more logical and sensible approach of simply counting up all the votes, is to stop a demagogue from taking power. The idea is that if the American people foolishly vote for someone dangerously unsuitable, the electoral college can pick someone else.

So if ever there was a time that the electoral college should justify its existence, this is it.

[RB68]

If you go down to the woods today...

[roseship]

I'm just saying that Hillary has a history of stage-managing shit that doesn't need to be stage-managed.

[OlennasWimple]

(Though when I rule it it will be renamed Trouser Nation)

[OlennasWimple]

Don't see the point you are making with those screen shots, rosehip.

Woman meets Hillary at high school; woman again meets Hillary ten (or more) years later walking locally. And....?

[roseship]

"Hillary has been hiking in the woods to clear her head today - don't blame her!"

there is a good chance this 'hiking in the woods' was stage-managed.

i.sli.mg/FhDQfK.png

Nothing Hillary does is genuine. That's why she lost.

[YonicProbe]

They might be but Hillary isn't

[GinAndTunic]

He said he wouldn't accept the decision if he lost.

The Democrats I know are throwing their dummies out the pram and demanding that the electoral college results be ignored. So basically, they are doing the same thing they criticised Trump for saying.

[RoseGoldHippie]

Well according to South Park, she's hiding under bridges talking to trolls from the Internet

[YonicProbe]

Maybe she was off to lead her people, Oleanna!

reductress.com/post/women-retreat-to-the-hills-to-establish-actual-pantsuit-nation/

[OlennasWimple]

Hillary has been hiking in the woods to clear her head today - don't blame her!

[YonicProbe]

Each state has a number of electoral college votes linked to population - 55 for California, say.

The candidate with 270 or more electoral college votes wins.

Clinton received c200,000 more votes than Trump but did not win a majority in enough states.

[Crunchymum]

Can someone clarify the 'she got more votes' issue for me.

I am assuming that more people voted for her in the states that were worth less points but I don't fully get it?

[NorksAkimbo72]

Unfortunately, no, I'm an American in the UK, but I did some volunteering (calling people up to encourage them to vote), so I think the email was attached to my tiny contribution too the cause.

[ajandjjmum]

So she actually got more votes than Trump.

I thought she spoke well and from the heart.

[Wookiecookies]

Thats good Nork, were you there on the night?