• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 hours ago

    The electrical college will always look different ways because winner takes all voting. It’s all that matters at the end, but a 1.5% change in the voters would have flipoed most of the battleground states. It was closer than many make it out to be

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      9 hours ago

      The fact that “closer” can be so diametrically opposed indicates a failure in the system.

      If it was close we’d have gotten, I don’t know, Mitt Romney or somebody.

      But the winner-take-all aspect means we get the dumbest, ugliest fascists ever. Just for a 1.5% difference.

      This is what a broken system looks like.