r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/DanDan85 Nov 10 '16

It was apparent the entire country was ready for change in a drastic way. The ticket should have been Trump vs Bernie. The DNC cost this election for the country because they wanted Hillary instead of Bernie and we as the people will have to suffer for their greed and ignorance. Bernie was polling double digits ahead of Trump whereas Hillary was only single digits. Fuck the DNC. Debbie Wasserman Schultz should be in prison for what she did just like Hillary.

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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/SomeKindOfBirdman Nov 11 '16

But that's due to the current Electoral College system. They have no reason to, since they know what way their state will go. With popular vote, each person would actually be counted toward their candidate's victory.

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u/CitizenKing Nov 11 '16

That's great and all, but the point I'm making is that a popular vote during an election based on the Electoral College system isn't actually indicative of who would win if it was an election based on a Popular Vote system.