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TwilightZone

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5. "they can choose someone with less votes "
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 02:56 PM
Feb 2020

If 70% of the electorate chooses delegates who then shift to just one of those candidates, that candidate then represents those 70%. That's how representative democracy works. That 70% doesn't actually matter, but for the sake of your argument, the delegates that that candidate would have now represent that 70%.

That's called a majority (both in delegates and in votes, for sake of your irrelevant votes-matter argument) and is not, by the very definition of a majority, "someone with less (fewer) votes".

Because math.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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