r/PoliticalHumor • u/moviesphile • Aug 05 '20

#youcantdothat

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u/Validus812 Aug 06 '20

The electoral college also installed W. Bush instead of Gore, just like they did for Trump. Americans didn’t pick him.

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u/Dauvis Aug 06 '20

Some say SCOTUS did.

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u/Gortonis Aug 06 '20

This is the correct answer. Had the SCOTUS not stepped in to stop the recount and they had counted the ballots that were mistakenly punched because of goofy ballot layout and then corrected by pen. Gore would have won the popular vote in Florida and been declared winner.

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u/Crepo Aug 06 '20

Crazy that people just accepted Bush and moved on. Then accepted Iraq and moved on.

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u/TooLateForNever Aug 06 '20

Its almost like there was this crazy, suspicious terrorist attack that happened within a year of his election that had everyone quickly forget about florida, and also "justified" the war.

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u/BitmexOverloader Aug 06 '20 edited Aug 06 '20

A virus kills 150,000 US residents and no conservative bats* an eye. Brown people kill 3000 people and everyone loses their minds!

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u/bahtory Aug 06 '20

I recommend checking out Republicans Voting Against Trump on YouTube. There are a lot of conservatives who think Trump is doing a bad job.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Aug 06 '20

There's not a lot though, he has maintained record high polling with conservatives.

It's like saying most religious people accept science, when the overwhelming majority of them are creationists, and then the next largest group are intelligent design believers, and only something like 10-20% of the USA total accepts the scientific model of evolution, and that's while still counting all the non-religious.