(01-16-2017 01:02 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: (01-16-2017 01:00 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote: (01-16-2017 12:57 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote: Where Obama and Hillary trying to win the popular vote or win the electoral college? They were, of course, trying to win the electoral college.
The rules were known to both sides before the game was played. Seems some of the losing team's fans don't even understand how this game is played.
The rules are as follows
In order to be elected President...
You must be able to win a majority of electoral votes in states with white majorities.
That's the rule.
There are no electoral votes IN a
STATE.
STATES assign their assigned electoral votes, as
STATE law requires, to the winner of the
STATE'S popular vote, or by popular vote per congressional district and the two senatorial electoral votes to the
STATEwide popular vote winner. Electoral votes per
STATE are the total of the number of members of Congress that that
STATE is allotted per the United
STATES Census every 10 years. Every
STATE is, per the United
STATES Constitution, guaranteed 3 electoral votes; because every
STATE is guaranteed, 2 Senators and 1 Representative.
Popular vote in each
STATE determines, in general, who that
STATE'S entire electoral vote goes to, with two current exceptions. There is no nationwide election in the United
STATES of America for citizens to vote in. There are 50 separate citizen elections in each
STATE and then the
STATES allot their electors according to their own laws and in general accordance to the winner of their
STATE'S election.
We are the United
STATES of America.
STATES elect the President and Vice-President according to their
STATE laws and the will of their citizens.
This is basic United
STATES Civics. Did you not have that class or did you go to a "progressive" school where feel-good bull-**** taught you that you were owed something from other people for sucking down oxygen?