Why did the guy that got the most votes in the Election not become president?

Why did the guy that got the most votes in the Election not become president?

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Electoral college you fucking tard.

The electoral college was intented to take power away from the east cost states in order to give power to states with a lower population, to preserve a sense of autonomy. If the vote was representative the balance of power would tilt.

if gore won, there wouldn't have been a 9/11, and america would still be great.

Wasn't Yeb guvnahh of Florida at the time?

Because of Jeb

mere coincidence

Nice meme you got there

I can agree that you would've been better off with Gore than Dubya, but let's not go too far with this notion. Climate Man would've left office with record-low approval rates just like W. did.

retarded system
also oligarchy

>if gore won, there wouldn't have been a 9/11

Gore was just as capable of working with Mossad to manufacture 9/11.

What's the point in voting if electoral colleges vote for you?

>Electoral college
What the hell is this?
Can someone give me a quick brief description of the Burger electoral system?

lol
this

"Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators."

each state gets a number of votes "based on population/representation". so when a candidate wins a state they're supposed to receive a set number of electoral college votes for that state.

Essentially it tries to keep power with the population centers and disenfranchise flyover states.

Dick Cheney and other neocons were well aware of the Al-Qaeda preparing a big ass terrorist attack on american soil and they let it happen because it suited their political agenda. No Dubya = No Cheney = No 9/11

But why not just count the absolute value of votes across all states? Population centers will still get more votes, because more people.

Basically each state is assigned a certain number of electoral votes based on the population census that happens every 10 years. The more populous states get more votes but I think the minimum amount of votes a state can have is 2 or 3. Some states split their electoral votes depending on who got votes in certain districts. Others do a winner takes all, meaning that even if 49.999999% vote for one guy as long as the other guy wins the majority all of that states votes go to the other guy. Some states votes count way more than others. Take Wyoming for example, the state has less population than some cities, but they are still afforded 3 votes. Honestly it is a pretty shit system with a 1/5 fail rate that can allow someone who wins roughly 24% of the popular vote to win the Presidency.

Rigged voting machines.

You realize that the US was 40% more white 16 years ago, right?

he didnt get most votes

the didnt count military write ins

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>narrowly win 10/50 states
>blown the fuck out in the rest
>gj, ur president!

this is why the electoral college is shit

This system is from when men on horses were the fastest form of communication.

Because the governor of the state that decided the election was the brother of the person who "won" it.

Jews (neocons)

ITT retards who can't into goygle/startpage/
By the way, what the fuck are they teaching you underage b& in civics these days?

BUCHANAN SENPAIIIIIIII ;_;

It keeps people from ignoring smaller population states that are still very important. If the electoral college didn't exist then New York and CA would basically pick the president and the farmers, loggers, and working class people in the heartland would have absolutely no say in anything and no presidential candidate would ever attempt to win them over.

However by the same token there are also large red populations in blue states, and large blue populations in red states (CA, NY, TX, IL, FL) whose votes don't matter because whoever wins the majority gets all the electoral votes for that state except in Nebraska and Maine. So if you're a republican in CA or a dem in TX you might as well not vote most of the time. Awarding electoral votes proportionally would solve this issue but it would totally fuck up election cycles

He beat me to it.

It is outdated but easily manipulated so it survives.

MANBEARPIG STOLE THE ELECTION

Your vote chooses the elector based on who he/she promises to vote for. So in reality, when you vote for a candidate you're really voting for an elector who has promised to vote for the candidate you selected.

>Essentially it tries to keep power with the population centers and disenfranchise flyover states.
Are you retarded? It's exactly the opposite. Flyover states have higher electoral votes per population than big states