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We don't have a popular vote for President. Candidates, campaigns, and voters would all behave differently if we did.

It's like if your baseball team lost a game and saying "yeah, but they had the fewest batters struck out!" OK... but that's not how the winner is determined, and both teams would have played differently if it were. We can't know what the outcome would have been, in that case.



your comment has nothing to do with the topic we were discussing. The person I replied to made a comment about what a majority of people in America believe.


Aside from addressing the irrelevance of the single piece of evidence you supplied to support that, sure, it's got nothing to do with it.


Pointing out that we have the electoral college days absolutely nothing about what a majority of people believe which was the topic being discussed.




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