Hillary's Popular Vote Argument Is Nonsense

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[TheYoungTurks]

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[nickMAN1025]

Hillary Clinton is crap. She claims that she should be president because she has the popular vote. Want to know why she has the popular vote? Republicans are voting for her because they know that she cannot beat McCain. For such an incredibly smart person she not only managed her campaign atrociously but she has slandered a true American, Barack Obama. I believe in the voting process but if Hillary Clinton gets elected, I will move to Canada.

OBAMA '08

Barack and Roll

Barack the vote

[DereckLamar]

I voted too in florida but if it don't count

i blame florida for that not Obama like hillary wants you too.

[MrWittiness]

With popular vote, she meant if all the people in USA(including republicans and others) would had to vote between Hillary and Obama, she would win because most republicans would vote for her instead of Obama.

[sspiega]

@SlipknotDJ

Answers:

Why doesn't the vote of the people matter? It DOES. You just don't understand the CONSTITUTION.

You then say:

"I thought this DEMOCRACY..." This is where you're wrong again. The United States is NOT a democracy. It is a REPUBLIC.

The "dumbass" as you put it were the founding fathers.

The reason we have an electoral college is because we live in a political system where REPRESENTITIVES cast votes on our behalf.

[SlipknotDJ]

Why doesn't the vote of the people matter? This country is fucked up. I thought this democracy was true and not with some shitty ass delegates. Anyways, who was the dumbasses that ruled that delegates should choose the candidates, and the electoral college? There must be a way to reform the government of this country seriously and abolish delegates and the electoral college.

[buchanan061]

There are many news articles online that can give you the answer to your question regarding the Clinton choice of not to withdraw from the MI ballot. WOW! Upset much, guess so. Someone once rightly labeled you as being a partisan, and it really made you angry. Now when someone/something indirectly makes you angry, you try applying that same stategy. Not very original, and definitely not effective. Soul searching? Like you would know anything about that. You need to seek info on that too, ha!

[sambah009]

get a grip and take off your partisan hat. forced down our throats? you are joking, right? how is it that barack leads in ever statistical catergory that matters? forced? yes or no. WAS IT NOT HILLARY THAT ONCE SAID THAT THE MICHIGAN VOTE WILL NOT COUNT ANYWAY? HOW COME EVERYONE TOOK THEIR NAMES OFF THE BALLOT, EXCEPT HILLARY? FACE THE FACTS, HILLARY LOST. BARACK RAN A BETTER CAMPAIGN. I STARTED OUT AS A HILLARY SUPPORTER. NOW I WILL BACK BARACK AGAINST MC:INSANE. GO DO SOME SOUL SEARCHING.

[buchanan061]

Hillary has the popular vote. Obama is being forced down our throats, just as Bush was in the 2000 election. Let's not allow this to happen again. The people of Florida and MI. should be counted, because political red-tape is no fault of theirs. We have a broken voting system in our country, it needs to be fixed. The people should get who they choose in office, and the superdelegates and an electoral college should have no place in the structure unless there was a tie (that wouldn't happen).

[FreakinForte]

Also get this. She only claims the popular vote if Michigan and Florida count exactly the way they are. Remember Michigan didn't have Obama's name on the ballot so all of those undecided votes wouldn't count for anything which means Obama wouldn't get anything from Michigan. How low-down and cheap is that? The Clintons need to give up these arguments cause the superdelegates aren't listening anymore.

[FreakinForte]

Come on give it up. I hope you're not a Clinton supporter putting this crap up about Obama lies. If so you really need to think about what you're saying when it comes to lies.

[UGOTDAJACK]

Actually, Hillary won texas by like 2 points. It was a squeker. She sucks!!!!

[tubebunny7]

Perhaps but the Democratic Party there probably wants to reward the candidate and voters that are more dedicated to the state, not neccesary the one that gets more votes. It's likely they will be more motivated to vote in November will come and contest the state.

In small states caucuses are plausible because of the cost of primaries. If nobody cares about the state's outcome outside of the primaries well why spend a ton of money? A lot of states and voters are pretty much ignored currently.