So many libs are gonna be down and out after this, like they’re not gonna believe that wandering shouting VOTE at random people couldn’t get them the win. We need to have like pamphlets and memes we can spam literally fucking everywhere to highlight the failures of the dems and give people resources to learn more about communism
Not really. Bush and Gore were nearly neck and neck, and Gore lost more because Florida rigged the election, but it was very tight. Hillary lost because of our idiot electoral college system. Biden has polled well above what either of them did consistently for the past six months.
OK.
My point was more that they both lost very narrow races, and Hillary lost pretty much fair and square.
Under the rules of the current electoral system yeah I guess she lost fairly. But I wouldn't call the current system anything close to fair. The narrowness of the races has nothing to do with anything.
The current system isn't fair, but when you run you're agreeing to the terms. She had the opportunity to overrun her polls but she didn't--she took the last few weeks of her campaign to fuck around in Arizona like a dipshit.
And the narrowness absolutely counts. Ballot box bullshit really only impacts (only, I say, as though percentage points aren't reflective of hundreds of thousands, but still) maybe 1 to 2% of the vote. Which is a lot, but if it's not a narrow race, that doesn't matter. The American electoral system is fucked, absolutely, but the only times Republicans have won in the past 20 years are when they were in a narrow race where they could throw their weight slightly in one direction or in Hillary's case, watch her spit up on herself.