He was the fifth President to the win the against the popular vote
[URL]http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-popular-vote/[/URL]
There are riots going now around the country in all states.
Today I told high school kids marching down Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley shouting Fuck Trump. I yelled at them that this is a Blue Stats, that it was not the Bay Area and California that voted for Trump, but the Red States and go to the Red States and protest.
Jackson why are you so quite? How do the Independents feel?
I told you your political Threads would lose you members. You did not listen. I am sure you lost a lot of friends over it.
Trump talked about Rigged elections. Bull Shit, but check his taxes. Hundreds of people are suing for wages he said he would pay.
He says he is for bringing back the jobs. Meanwhile he has a workers strike at his Casino in Las Vegas.
It should be a popular vote always. As Andrew Jackson and Ben Franklin said. Watch what you are voting for. The Republic may be taken over for your not watching it, sort of.
[QUOTE=Local;448136]I do not intend to participate in any discussion on the essence of the political issues at stake. Id just like to point out, from a purely mathematical perspective, that yesterdays results are very different from those of the Carter/Reagan 1980 election.
HRC won the popular vote with 47.7% vs 47.5%. Reagan got 50,7% vs Carters 41% (independent Anderson got 6,6%).
The following article models what the outcome would have been if only 1% of the vote would have been casted for HRC instead of for Trump. Such a shift would not have affected the outcome in 1980.
[URL]http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-difference-2-percentage-points-makes/[/URL][/QUOTE]
Electoral College vs Popular Vote
I looked this morning and they are still counting votes. We will see who ends up with what.
We get this whining from the loser about this issue every time it happens. If it was such a problem then why has it not been corrected before this election?.
Are you trying to tell me neither Trump nor Clinton had any idea the Electoral College was the determining factor and not the popular vote when this started? The main stream media sure as hell did as all I heard for months was how the Democrats had the advantage when it came to the Electoral College.
The unrest is in 25 cities, mostly Blue states and a lot of it is about no free college tuition, screw these spoiled rotten fragile little snow flakes - I paid for mine when I went and they can pay for theirs.
You did not see this type of conduct in 2012 or 2016 from the Republicans - so what's with all these cry baby Democrats?
Democrats had the advantage in the Electoral College and the main stream news media on their side and working with the DNC from the jump and they still lost.
Stop quibbling and making excuses - YOU LOST! GET OVER IT!
Southern California does seem to be in another United States
Trump received 23% of the vote in LA County. Orange County voted in favor of a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1936.
Every tax proposal increase passed by a wide majority.
What people fail to understand is that California is very competitive. The population is highly transitory. When you can no longer compete than you move out. Toyota just moved to Texas given 20 years of tax breaks but the building they were in was immediately filled. It makes no sense to have the back office for the car dealerships located in Southern California. Especially since Toyota now manufactures most it cars sold in the US in the US. We have lost several industries over the last thirty years. Aerospace manufacturing, car factories, furniture making, cut and sew apparel, and mortgage banking have disappeared. Even with the high tax structure, Southern California is a living laboratory of Schumpeter's creative destruction principles.
[URL]http://www.economist.com/news/business/21709564-cheaper-location-tech-companies-takes-los-angeles-booms-startup-hub[/URL]
No Jail Time for the Clintons
[QUOTE=DonB;448157]Will Obama pardon Hillary? Since she, like Nixon, has not been charged a pardon is tantamount to an admission of guilt.
But how can he, after all he said she had done nothing wrong. If he does, how about Bill and Chelsea, they are into the corrupt Foundation up to their necks?
If there are no pardons, will there be a special prosecutor appointed?
Don B.[/QUOTE]No matter what happens, I do not think any of the Clintons will do any jail time. They know where too many bodies are buried.
Tres3.