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In reply to the discussion: "I just don't like Hillary..." [View all]
MineralMan
(149,676 posts)43. We have the system we have. With just a few tens of thousands of
more votes, Hillary would have been inaugurated as President. Enough votes were cast for Jill Stein to have shifted the election to Hillary in three key states. I'm not fighting the 2016 election, either. I'm pointing out the historical statistics.
We have the electoral system. To win the White House, we need 270 electoral votes. Hillary did not have 270, but she could have had.
Perhaps your memory is not as good as you think.
And, by the way, you keep mentioning the "last election." The last election was in 2020. Joe Biden won. You might remember that one, as well.
Facts are facts. History is history. Our system is our system.
That is all.
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Does the word "last" have a new meaning now? Not even about the primary anyway.
betsuni
Apr 2024
#20
You are so right, also I am looking for rats that are still creeping around.
William769
Apr 2024
#38
That's No. 2 on my list of phrases I loathe that are related to Trump supporters.
Aristus
Apr 2024
#3
For my ex-neighbor, it was "he tells it like it is". She would never explain "it".
LoisB
Apr 2024
#31
Of course not. They're just babbling what they hear the babblers on the TV say.
Aristus
Apr 2024
#35
A lot of people who did not like Hillary still voted for her. Did those people cause Trump?
Autumn
Apr 2024
#5
Well... just expect crickets cause that's all anyone is going to put in the pot.
Autumn
Apr 2024
#11
Pure hyperbole. You are never going to find a Democratic or Republican candidate that everyone
Autumn
Apr 2024
#69
Lawrence: SCOTUS justices of 3 GOP presidents ended Roe. 'Your vote lives after you.'
LetMyPeopleVote
Apr 2024
#14
She was certainly not my first choice but I voted for her eagerly over Trump!
Quixote1818
Apr 2024
#18
The polls right before election day said she had about a 2 in 3 chance of winning.
Mariana
Apr 2024
#84
It is good to learn from history but it is useless to try to beat it to death.
Chainfire
Apr 2024
#27
This is the fascinating thing! How did so many people be so stupid to believe the BS?
betsuni
Apr 2024
#49
Something tells me that many, if not most, of the petulant people who did that
Patton French
Apr 2024
#46
Not so sure about the everyone else "busting their hump to get her into office" part.
progressoid
Apr 2024
#133
OFFS yourself. It was a what if. Your rage doesn't change the fact that had he as Bidens VP
Autumn
Apr 2024
#131
I saw an interview with Bill Clinton several years ago and he was asked this question.
jalan48
Apr 2024
#82
same thing w bill. same thing with jimmy. same thing w obama. i remember it well thank you very much.
AllaN01Bear
Apr 2024
#98