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[Sirus]

Back in the late 50's, I think, when Hawaii joined.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

When has it been the last time you got a new state anyway?

August 21st, 1959, the day Hawaii joined the Union.

[Darvi]

My first reaction was thinking "Welp, time to look through WWI+II pictures with US flags and see if they're shopped".

[Rolan7]

Aaaaaand...

Trump is saying that we don't live in a democracy and is advocating for people to march on washington and stop this travesty.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/trump-election-meltdown-twitter-obama-march-washington-054449245--election.html

This is the sort of thing I was worrying about last night, though I didn't communicate it very well.  I wonder if people are really marching on Washington like he suggests.

[Darvi]

If they are, then it isn't because of him.

[Sirus]

Aaaaaand...

Trump is saying that we don't live in a democracy and is advocating for people to march on washington and stop this travesty.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/trump-election-meltdown-twitter-obama-march-washington-054449245--election.html

This is the sort of thing I was worrying about last night, though I didn't communicate it very well.  I wonder if people are really marching on Washington like he suggests.

As long as they don't start an insurrection or whatever, that's their right.

[Reelya]

"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy." - Donald Trump.

Did he miss that Obama won the popular vote, too?

I'm actually not surprised that it happened like that. Since the Electoral College is biased against large cities, where Democrats do best, then if Obama won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote that would be highly unlikely.

Has there ever been a case where the big-city liberal won the EC vote, but lost popular vote?

[RedKing]

Yeah, the 48-star flag went for a long time without being changed (1912-1959).

Aaaaaand...

Trump is saying that we don't live in a democracy and is advocating for people to march on washington and stop this travesty.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/trump-election-meltdown-twitter-obama-march-washington-054449245--election.html

This is the sort of thing I was worrying about last night, though I didn't communicate it very well.  I wonder if people are really marching on Washington like he suggests.

As long as they don't start an insurrection or whatever, that's their right.

And if they do...well, the gene pool will be the cleaner for it after all is said and done. Really, what's he gonna do? Stand there and look more constipated? Wave his hairpiece menacingly? His comments are utterly baseless. Obama won the electoral vote (pretty soundly) *and* the popular vote. He's got nothing to get outraged about.

[Sirus]

Well, clearly Romney was supposed to win. Since Obama won, there must have been a massive world-wide conspiracy to deny Romney his rightful position.

I guess. _{I dunno, I can't parody ultra-conservatives very well...}

[Karlito]

Has there ever been a case where the big-city liberal won the EC vote, but lost popular vote?

There several elections with discrepancies between the Electoral College and the Popular vote in the 19th century, but the only one within living memory was in 2000, where Bush won the EC, but Gore won the popular vote (though it was so close that you might consider the popular vote a statistical tie).

[FearfulJesuit]

Conservapedia links to this article on why Romney lost. Highlights: Romney failed to call out Obama on death panels, socialism, or his false birth stories. Also, Americans are tired of spilling blood in "Islamistan" (not sure if tongue-in-cheek or not), and...

...the Republicans are too corporatist.

Stopped clock much?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Has there ever been a case where the big-city liberal won the EC vote, but lost popular vote?

Depends on what you see as liberal.

Decide for yourself:

1824 (The only case where a candidate won BOTH the EC and the popular vote, only to have Congress award the victory to somebody else. And the guy who they screwed here? Andrew Jackson. No wonder he killed so many when he won the Presidency later.)
1876
1888
2000

[Sirus]

Conservapedia links to this article on why Romney lost. Highlights: Romney failed to call out Obama on death panels, socialism, or his false birth stories.

Hahahaha.

Republicans are too nice. In contrast, spending hundreds of millions of dollars, Obama set out to destroy the character of Mitt Romney.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Darvi]

So pretty much on par for Schlandy.

[lemon10]

Conservapedia links to this article on why Romney lost. Highlights: Romney failed to call out Obama on death panels, socialism, or his false birth stories. Also, Americans are tired of spilling blood in "Islamistan" (not sure if tongue-in-cheek or not), and...

...the Republicans are too corporatist.

Stopped clock much?

Republicans are too nice.

Wha... Blaha? Huhaha?

NINJAD, DAMN YOU NINJA SIRUS!