How big of a shit show will it be if one candidate wins the electoral vote and the other one wins the popular vote?

How big of a shit show will it be if one candidate wins the electoral vote and the other one wins the popular vote?

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It would be hilarious and proof that the thing is rigged

You mean like most elections?

Not big at all, that's fairly common.

Not that big of a shitshow. You realize that happened in 2000, right? Oh wait - of course you don't, you were probably 2.

Are you all idiots? It happened once in the history of US presidential elections.

And this is why voting is pointless

That shit show will have 2 more seasons if both of the candidates' electoral votes are tied.

It happened twice you fucking dunce

>You realize that happened in 2000, right?

Yeah and there were a ton of people on the losing side saying it was rigged and demanding a recount of Florida.

Four times, actually - retard

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So is this your first time paying attention to an election or something?

The fact it can happen at all is proof the system isn't just broken. It's smashed into pieces, set on fire, and nuked from orbit

You consider that a shitshow? It was over in a matter of weeks. You have low standards.

>losing side saying it was rigged and demanding a recount of Florida.

yeah and the supreme court cast the deciding vote.

yes the system is rigged so that the votes cast in smaller states count for more than the very populous states. This is intentional so that the smaller states think they have a say in choosing the leader.

You know nothing of how this works. The president gets electoral votes equal to the number of congressional representatives, which is a mix of the house and the senate. The two house system was specifically designed such that the more populated states couldn't completely outvote the less populated states. In these edge cases where they lost the national popular vote, the college worked exactly as designed.

>The fact it can happen at all is proof the system isn't just broken. It's smashed into pieces, set on fire, and nuked from orbit

lol - you think that's "educating" me? You realize it's exactly what the system was set up to do from the beginning, no? Do you understand what an electoral college is?

>implying it hasn't already been a shitshow for quite a while

I remember that. It was the republicans. They demanded recounts until they magically won Fla. Kinda like the email investigations they keep blowing money on.

Governor Jeb Bush made sure his brother got into the Whitehouse back then.

Funny how it's republican voters who've been crying 'rigged' for nearly a month, isn't it? Because without that little bit of vote tally manipulation, the USA would be around 4 trillion dollars better off and we wouldn't have Al Qaeda or ISIS to deal with either.

inb4 isis was during Obama... yup thats because it's a by product of the arab spring uprisings that were a direct result of the illegal invasion of Iraq. By Bush. A reublican.

And side note: Al qaeda was the name given by CIA operatives to the elitely trained fighters in Afghanistan (see why they knew they were there, boys?) during the soviet invasion back in the 80's. Under Reagan.. another republican.

Fact check me bois. You won't win.

The Clinton/Bush crime family isn't a dem/rep issue. They're both horrible.

On that, I agree.