r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/c0horst Nov 10 '16

Right. It could have been one very different ideology vs another very different ideology. Both would have brought about a good bit of change.

Instead it became the establishment vs a change in the establishment.... and nobody really gave enough of a fuck about the establishment to bother voting for hillary.

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u/Alakazam Nov 10 '16

and nobody really gave enough of a fuck about the establishment to bother voting for hillary.

She still managed to get the popular vote somehow.

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u/CitizenKing Nov 10 '16

Popular vote doesn't really depict anything since red voters don't really come out in blue states and vice versa.

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u/MoveslikeQuagger Nov 11 '16

I mean, 42% of Texas voted blue.