Lewdog
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It's been an issue many times before. Why was it a big deal this year? Because Russia used the fact that a small handful of states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin swung the ENTIRE election. Those three states are worth 46 electoral votes. It's called playing the margins. Trump won Wisconsin by 1% point. Trump won Michigan by .3% percentage points. Trump won Pennsylvania by 1.2% percentage points. Going into the election it was well known those states were going to be close calls and Russia focused their propaganda campaign to focus in those areas...
"Warner said in the latest case, the paid trolls apparently focused on swing states in an attempt to influence votes there — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — where people were “reading during the waning days of the election that “‘Clinton is sick,’ or ‘Clinton is taking money from whoever for some source’ … fake news.”"
1,000 Paid Russian Trolls Spread Fake News On Hillary Clinton, Senate Intelligence Heads Told | HuffPost
So you'd rather have a flawed system where something like this could happen rather than just having the entire country vote and the one that gets the most votes wins.
Nobody pays attention to crap like that. Russia had nothing to do with it. People who were going to vote Democrat did and people who were going to vote Republican did. On both sides, a lot of people stayed home because they were unhappy with the candidates, but Trump brought in new blood to replace the old blood so he won. He had a message that resinated with the public; something Hillary didn't have.
But you ran a candidate that was under FBI investigation, a candidate that was let off the hook because she was part of the club, a candidate who was totally careless with top government information, and a candidate that disobeyed the US Congress in an investigation. But it was Russia's fault. Give me a break.
Sure they don't. Did you hear how many times fake news stories on Facebook were shared?
How many followers did some fake Russian accounts have on Twitter and instagram?
"@TEN_GOP gained a large following that reached 136,000 followers "
Twitter took a year to close a fake GOP account run by Russians
People in Trump's team even re-tweeted information tweeted from THIS account.
So just stop it with the "No one paid attention to that stuff" bullshit.
You don't give your fellow citizens too much credit, do you? Who gets their news from FaceBook for crying out loud? Who would use anything posted there to make a decision on a President?
Why can't you just admit you ran a completely failed candidate? One who had more baggage than an airport. Not only was she suspicious, but she was not liked personally either. She is known to be a bitch and an alcoholic. She couldn't even attend a 911 ceremony without being rushed off and collapsing before she got into her van. She was so drunk on election night she couldn't even make a concession speech.
Who gets their news from Facebook? More people than you realize. When 25% of the U.S. population believes in the Geocentric theory, some people still believe the world is flat, and more people can identify the members of the Three Stooges than the three branches of government.
Hillary Clinton was a horrible candidate, but if you can't see that there are dumbasses out there that will believe some stupid shit and can be influenced to vote a certain way because of these stories, then you might be one of them.
Yeah, right, because the media was so pro Donald Trump.
Donald Trump was right. He got incredibly negative press coverage.
He deserved the negative attention he got in the media... because he constantly lied, and he said off the wall shit on purpose to get into the news. He admitted it and begged for attention because he said it was free campaigning, without him having to spend money.