Hmmmmm

hmmmmm

How the fuck do American elections work?

All I read everyday is people donating money to the candidates and a different state voting every other week. I tought that old man Bernie was out of the election but he is still on the game. What the fuck is going on? When will we know who will become president?

go to brainpop.com and buy a subscription and they'll tell you

Citizens vote for a Representative who promises to vote for either Trump or Clinton.

Yes, it's stupid. Its designed that way.

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Ha!

What the fuck kek

Is truly the most stupid system of election.

making it possible for presidents to win while getting less votes than their opponent

It happened in 2000. Bush got less votes than Gore, but got more electoral votes, and became president.

yeah
it's not great

hmmmmm

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Prediction: she gets one more bounce (happening now) and then drops below Trump for good.

Will the turnout be as big as in 2008 and 2012? US has a pretty low voter turnout. A lower turnout will favor Trump, but a lower turnout might also favor Trump.

Prediction: obama gets one more bounce (happening now) and then drops below Romney for good.

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does this mean that tromp will win

perfect deadcat bounce


bye

There are four reasons why it works that way.

1. There are states with yuge populations and states with tiny ones. The electoral college helps balance out the influence of yuge ones like California while making small states like New Hampshire or New Jersey stay relevant. Otherwise the votes would basically swing on California and Florida all the fucking time, and everyone else in the country wouldn't matter.

2. Originally, the Founders only allowed white males who owned land to vote, under the theory that only people with a stake in the country should have the right to vote. That drastically changed the balance of power between the North, which was mostly white, and the South, which was at least 20% black. So the electoral college helps to fudge the voter numbers between the two.

3. When the country was founded, states had as much or more power than the Federal government on many local issues. While that's changed ever since the 17th Amendment was ratified, it meant that the electors were expressions of a state's power and voting intentions in the national arena, and ensured that state's would have a say in who would become president and prevent the direct election of a populist demagogue who might work contrary to the nation's best interests.

4. The Founders did not approve of the idea of a direct democracy. The passions of the people, especially the uneducated and the poor, do not suit the mechanisms of government. That's why they ensured only qualified individuals could vote and were certain they'd only vote in the best interests of the country and themselves.

Now that we let anyone above the age of 18 vote, man or woman, rich or poor, educated or not, we have barely 60% of the population voting in national elections. Most of the poor people vote for whoever promises them the most welfare, meaning that the Democrats can literally promise bread and circuses every day and win their vote without doing anything that's actually good for the country.

romney was below obama in nearly every poll throughout the entire general

>Trump gets a big bounce starts leading over Hillary
>Reuters: OH MY GOODNESS WE ARE SO SORRY GOYS I MEAN GUYS OUR POLLS ARE INACCURATE. BY OUR NEW ESTIMATES HILLARY IS WINNING BY 5 POINTS!

Anyone who buys this shit is crazy. Polls are just trying to discourage the right just like how they tried to tell us Brexit would lose.

>Nearly every poll
>Trump has only one poll showing him above Clinton
>Immediately drops after the DNC
Yeah, right.

The numbers are being fudged

idk user let me go and ask doc and marty.

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Theres a lot of polls showing Trump ahead