Is there any other country in the world where a candidate who receives fewer votes can win the highest office?

Is there any other country in the world where a candidate who receives fewer votes can win the highest office?

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Does that map look more blue or red to you, fag?

Yeah, basically all of them.

yes

Is there any country in the world with corporate taxes higher than ours? Is there any other country who uses "loser pays" for lawsuits besides us?

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Don't you worry.

trudeau won 39% of the vote, only 8% more than harper and he won double the seats:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_2015

That's at least as fucked up as what happened in the US

kikes want to use the military to support their businesses they gotta pay a little bit. deal with it schlomo.

your watermelon is getting cold desu!

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Sure thing you fedora wearing homo.

Trump got more votes though.

We're a republic. Please feel free to leave.

How many votes did the President of the EU get again?

Sup Forums before election
>the electoral college is a disgrace!
>abolish the electoral college!
>the whole thing is rigged for hillary!
Sup Forums after election
>USA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY
>ELECTORAL COLLEGE PROTECTS SMALLER STATES
>READ THE CONSTITUTION
>TRUMP WON FAIR AND SQUARE

I guess we're lucky we arent one of them. Illegals can't vote, after all

ELECTORAL VOTES DECIDED THE PRESI

i didn't hear anyone against the electoral college before election. go back to csgo ivan

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In America, illegal immigrants dont yet decide the President thanks to the ELECTORAL college. Hillary only got the majority votes thanks to illegals and dead people. She could jave got 105milllion votes in california and she still would have lost.

I'll go ahead and say this so people who just started paying attention recently can see this. The Democrats have been cheating at the voting booths for a long time. President Trump easily received more votes and the part that is most devastating to the Dems is they successfully pulled off fraud and still lost badly!

already happened in uk, but this benefit them the labour party, so the press dont talk much about it

nobody was against electoral college. fake meme

Actually, illegals count in the census meaning states with lots of them get more representatives meaning more electoral votes.

what about italy and greece, if you receive like 30% percent of the votes, they give you 20% additional ones

Uh America is a democratic REPUBLIC, not a direct democracy. Look up the difference you should've learned this in 1st grade. Sage in all fields boys

Why is it bait? He's right you know.

Weak bait.
Sage in all fields

Literally any parliamentary country

>Uh America is a democratic REPUBLIC, not a direct democracy.
I didn't claim it wasn't

Of course. With our system UKIP had 3.8m votes in 2015 and ended up with 1 seat. Meanwhile the (((SNP))) had 1.4m votes and ended up with 56 seats.

>Is there any other country in the world where a candidate who receives fewer votes can win the highest office?
Venezuela

>Uh America is a democratic REPUBLIC
*Representative Democracy. Republic has little to do with democracy. All democracies are republics, but not all republics are democracies.

The "United States" is a Federation. Each state is like a country. Each state has voting power based on its population (also a reason why illegals are a problem).

Our government(s) are a Constituional Republic. Each State has its own constition as does the Federation. The Federation Trumps the States, but federal powers are supposed to be limited.

Even Mexico has voter ids,
I would trust their voter totals over USA including murders and all!

>people keep wrongly calling it a democracy
The US is a Constitutional Republic.

Study supports Trump: 5.7 million noncitizens may have cast illegal votes

A research group in New Jersey has taken a fresh look at postelection polling data and concluded that the number of noncitizens voting illegally in U.S. elections is likely far greater than previous estimates.
As many as 5.7 million noncitizens may have voted in the 2008 election, which put Barack Obama in the White House.
The research organization Just Facts, a widely cited, independent think tank led by self-described conservatives and libertarians, revealed its number-crunching in a report on national immigration.
Just Facts President James D. Agresti and his team looked at data from an extensive Harvard/YouGov study that every two years questions a sample size of tens of thousands of voters. Some acknowledge they are noncitizens and are thus ineligible to vote.
Just Facts’ conclusions confront both sides in the illegal voting debate: those who say it happens a lot and those who say the problem nonexistent.

>The US is a Constitutional Republic.
No, it is a democratic democracy. We elect people to create laws. The only difference is that states elect a president

is anyone else missing flags
or just me

How can you be so dumb. Like I don't fucking get it

illegals voting/voter fraud faggot.

Assmad royalists

exactly, and if over 6m illegals voted in the last election, what would stop them from voting against a man who wanted to deport them.

>How can you be so dumb. Like I don't fucking get it
I can tell you are 15 and probably heard that we are a "republic." Let me help you.
>What is a representative democracy?
A form of democracy where the population elects representatives to create laws. That is called the House of Representatives and the Senate in the US. They create laws for the United States of America. They are voted in by the people who they represent.
>But what about the President?
The states choose representatives to elect him
>But, But, But a republic
A republic means a government that is "public" and does not have inheritable titles. This can apply to democracies and non democracies.

In Parliamentary systems they don't get to vote for their leader *at all* you mongoloid Jon Stewart fan.

Last year Britons had no idea they were walking down the block to vote for their Prime Minister to be fired. If America was like most of those Other Places you fap to, Paul Ryan (or more likely John Boehner or Mitch McConnell) would be our President. Sage

The states are functionally representative democracies. Originally they were not.
The Constitution only requires that the president me chosen by electors. It does not require that the electors be chosen by any democratic process within the states. The states can choose electors however they want to. They just happen to choose them democratically.
Again: the US is a Constitutional Republic. Democracy only occurs at the state and local level. Even then it isn't a requirement under the Constitution.

Imagine you have fifty rooms, each with a regular population that comes in every day, and often sleeps in the rooms.

Each room had a popularity contest, and Trump won the popularity contest in more rooms than Clinton. Long ago, we established a rule that said that each room get's a number of votes based on it's population, so the rooms with larger populations have more representation.

Basically, Clinton won a handful of rooms that had lots and lots of people in them. For some reason, brown people, regardless of the room, voted for her - the rooms she won had lots of brown people. So really, most of her votes were brown people.

The problem is that lots of these brown people aren't even supposed to be here - they invaded our house. They vote for Clinton because she wants to let them stay and bring in their brown families from next door - who will all vote Clinton.

Trump won the majority of white votes, and whites are the majority of voters. The only way this can change is by bringing in non-white, brown foreigners who vote for Clinton.

Quite simply, no one cares what a bunch of brown people who aren't even citizens in California think. Did you know they don't check your ID in CA and WA, so absolutely anyone can just show up and vote?

>The states are functionally representative democracies. Originally they were not.
Yes they were. That is the whole point of the electoral college
>Again: the US is a Constitutional Republic.
The creation of laws is done democratically, so no. We elect representatives who create laws, a democracy. Before, the state governments (elected representatives) chose the Senator, still a representative democracy.

wow that's a tax of 39%, here in Panama it is 25%.

Also why call it "corporate tax"? It's just fucking income tax.

>Also why call it "corporate tax"? It's just fucking income tax.
Corporations are businesses that are their own legal entity.

No

The Original United States was composed of three branches

An Executive Branch chosen by the States.

A Judicial Branch appointed by the Executive Branch.

And a Legislative Branch composed of a Senate chosen by the State Legislatures and a House that was directly elected. Only the House of Representatives was actually chosen by the people, the entire rest of the government was not democratic.

Our highest law, and the primary reason we aren't under the same level of tyranny as our European cousins, is specifically designed to be IMMUNE to democracy. The Constitution repeatedly looks to the will of the people and tells the people to go fuck themselves.

Over the years our society has become more and more democratic through the degrading of limiting institutions and the gradual expansion of suffrage, but this has been accompanied at every level by the waning of our liberties and the growth of State Power.

The Federal Government was designed as a Republic that blended the three classical forms of government, Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. IT is not, not was it ever intended, to be a pure democracy.

here in the third world we just call businesses "juridic person", and regular citizens "natural person". Income tax for both is different, but it's just called income tax.

"Corporate tax" sounds retarded for a small mom and pops business.

No, the Electoral College did not have anything to do with democracy. People in the counties chose the electors based on who they trusted to go vote or the electors were chosen by the state legislatures.
Go take a look at the Constitution and tell me how many times the word "democracy" appears.
The laws are created by a Congress that happens to be democratically elected (but not necessarily so) and signed into law and enforced by a Chief Executive who is elected through a constitutional, not a democratic process.
To get back to the OP's question, NO, you cannot become president by getting fewer votes. You must get a majority of Electoral College votes. If we were a democracy, then you would need a popular vote majority. Since we're not a democracy at the federal level, you still need a majority of the only votes that matter as dictated by the Constitution. The Electors.

united STATES of america

>An Executive Branch chosen by the States.
Keyword STATES, elected representatives. They people who were voted in chose which representatives
>The Federal Government was designed as a Republic that blended the three classical forms of government, Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. IT is not, not was it ever intended, to be a pure democracy.
A republic is not a form of government, just characteristics.

the constitution literally says we are a republic and every state is also guaranteed a republican form of government.

There is no country on earth that comes close to resembling America.

Great Britain.

For unparalleled unbridled horse shit

Actually, it is very unwise to not form a corporation (official term LLC) in America if you have a business. It protects you from legal liability should something happen with your business. With a corporation, you are only liable up to everything you invested in the business. In a business that is not a corporation, if you get sued, they could go after your car, house, bank account, etc.

Wrong. First they have leadership race. Then the winner picks a jurisdiction in which to run. If he gets one more vote than everybody else he becomes pm

Lol good one OP

i dont like clinton

Not in that way atleast

Heck, you might even say i hate her

I'll tell you this kid, making jokes like that will get you a few you's

But thats all it'll do

Is just get you a few you's

oh shit this is news, source?

>No, the Electoral College did not have anything to do with democracy.
Yes it does, our states are democracies. Our states decide how they chooses it's delegates. Elected representatives choose the delegates. It is still democratic, as you elect the people making the decision.
>the constitution literally says we are a republic
So did the Soviet Union's. Doesn't make it so.

They are not bound to say who won. Only whatever they want to say
>muh democratic superdelegates
The founders thought people were monkeys. Oh well
>we're a constitutional republic because this has the word republican in it and not a democratic democracy as though there's any difference

Is there any other country in the world that is divided up into individually represented states?

It's almost like the USA is are 50 states that are united and have their own say in the country or something.

Really makes my sputnik go beep beep

No. And why would you want to be a patch work quilt? Like having oblasts and vassal states? Muh guam!

And why would you want to be a patch work quilt?

If you don't like one patch, move to a different one, but enjoy the overall warm freedom goodness of the entire quilt.

>They are not bound to say who won. Only whatever they want to say
They are in some states, by threat of jail. Also, your elected representatives don't have a responsibility to do what they promise.
>The founders thought people were monkeys. Oh well
Democracy has always been an oligarchy behind smoke and mirrors.

Stop making up shit, commie

You're hung up on the fact that we use democracy at the state level. We only do it to fulfill Constitutional requirements, not democratic requirements.
We're governed by the Constitution, not the whims of the people.
If Americans in all fifty states decided that they would fill all public offices by lottery, chess tournament, or trial by combat we would still be a Constitutional Republic. Nothing would actually change.
In a pure representative democracy, Congress could pass any law it wanted to at any time. And I mean ANY law.
In a Constitutional Republic, it's bound by...the Constitution.
There's a difference between "being a democracy" and "using democratic processes to perform Constitutional duties".