Biden Resigns = 1st Female Black President

[ProudHazelHelper]

For Biden to resign would be the best possible outcome for the Democrat party, giving them the black vote in perpetuity. He will be lauded as the first to coronate the 1st Female Black President in history. Otherwise, he'll just be remembered as a senile old corrupt hack.

Thanks for proving my point. 😉

So did Al Gore & Trump over Biden, I believe.

no, Biden won the popular vote. So did Al Gore. Bush beat Kerry in the popular vote in 2004.

(Worth pointing out that, of course, the same distortionary principle applies to UK parliamentary elections. It's just very obvious in a single head to head race.)

Thanks @knitnerd90 - I wasn't sure about Trump but did know about Al Gore.

Agree re UK politics & I imagine that Labour will stick with first past the post now they've benefitted rather than moving to proportional representation as they've supported previously!

And this is the risk this time

It's not a risk, it's a feature. Designed that way to prevent tyranny. And it's worked for over 200 years. Not sure if history has been rewritten about how America came to become a nation, but tyranny is something we don't tolerate.

Yes popular vote counts for nothing in US and U.K.
Electoral college and pass the post were established specifically to prevent the unwashed masses from using their votes to elect the ‘wrong’ candidate.

We whinge about Russian tampering with elections, but the election systems in both countries are designed to keep the elites in power.

Tyranny of the common man, not the classic definition of tyranny. Articles claiming it’s to protect against people like Trump are having a laugh- the electoral college is biased to favour whichever party is in power. So when Biden ran against Trump, Trump had the weight of the electoral college bias behind him.

That seems counter to the point you're trying to make. I think if it more along the lines of Thomas Jefferson, who opposed "every form of tyranny over the minds of man", which was with in the context of faith in Christ against oppression. The example being how the King of England was oppressive towards the colonies. And I see a lot of similarities between the policies of King George III and the Biden/Harris administration's handling of COVID, persecution of RFK, and election interference... Currently. Other recent examples in America...Watergate, Affordable Care Act, 2020 Election Denial.

Which makes it all the more depressing that the U.S. doesn't do a better job of it.

Excuse me, but I feel obliged to point out that Hilary massively WON the popular vote. A lot of people feel she lost the presidency due to a series of disastrous flukes.

As an American woman I can't agree more. Hillary was robbed.

She lost due to a grotesque character assassination campaign and dog whistle rhetoric, but also to a massive miscalculation on the part of her team (and presumably herself too) - they forgot about the Electoral College.

Winning the popular vote with a massive total showed that Americans are willing to vote against Trump. I don't think all 70+ million people who cast a vote for her were thrilled about her as a candidate, or about Biden four years later. I hope the willingness to vote against Trump carries the day in November, along with what looks like genuine enthusiasm about Harris and Walz.

I'm not sure you understand what the Electoral College is or how it is composed.

Well, for that matter, I imagine that everywhere across the world, people may vote for candidates they're not thrilled about. America, in particular, seems to have a attention-span problem, always looking for the shiny new toy.