RetiredGySgt
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Happened counting this time 5 times.see the mandate is because he also won the congress. No matter how you wish to make yourself feel better, the fact remains it was a mandate. baddaboomDon't forget, the greater the margin of victory, the greater the mandate for the new president to implement his agenda. Trump won, the democrats are feverishly trying to find any way they can possibly claim he either didn't really win or that he has no mandate to implement his agenda, so the Republicans are just batting aside the feeble objections.If so what Explains this
If the Popular vote totals are categorically unimportant why are the Right wingers doing the Misinformation circuit...its important because they want to claim they are in the majority when they are not...
Consider :
people who Googled the phrase "Final Election Count" as late as 2 p.m. on Nov. 14. The first entry in Google’s news category -- above those from news links to the Washington Post and Politico -- was a Nov. 12 post (updated the following day) from a little-known site called 70news.[ a Right wing Propaganda site like Breitbart]
"Final election 2016 numbers: Trump won both popular (62.9M-62.2M) and Electoral College Votes (306-232)," the post’s headline said.
No, Trump is not beating Clinton in the popular vote
PolitiFact - 16 hours ago
"Final election 2016 numbers: Trump won" the popular vote.
— Bloggers on Saturday, November 12th, 2016 in web posts
According to its Facebook page, the site launched in August [ I bet Bannon has ties to these folks] and seeks to "share news that matters to you. What liberal media will try to hide, we will uncover."
His margin of victory was a negative number.
Liberals just want to change the scoring system after the game is over because they lost. That isn't OK with you?
Well, sure, you scored more points, but we got more first downs. We win! Oh, you got more first downs? Well, we got more yards of offense ...
The votes are the points.
Who can name all of the other elections in the US where the guy who wins the vote doesn't win the election?