electoralism

Americans get sooo mad when I say Cuba objectively has a more democratic system than us.

So according to the 538 nerds, this is gonna be 2016 all over again lmao even down to the birthday tweet. Time really is a flat circle.

A year and a half of spectacle and entrail-reading just to end up with a coin flip.

omg, it really is gonna be 269 to 269, isn't it 😂

this is going to be so fucking funny, except for the risk of violence

do we think the libs will Rise Up if the tiebreaker goes to Trump, or will the MIC prevent his winning a tiebreak, or will they just work with him again because he was tolerable before, or what

It was a system never intended to be a Democracy.

It was designed to balance the needs of a bunch of oligarchical states so they could act as a cohesive unit. They are the bourgeoisie version of the HRE or Greek City states. Instead of the nobility, it was white, wealthy, landowners.

Based on this map he only needs to win Pennsylvania or Michigan or Wisconsin, all of which are effectively tied. Lots of pathways to win. Kamala's got to win all three, or lose Pennsylvania and pick up like North Carolina.

Say what you want about democratic centeralism but votes should have like 90% approval. I never really thought about it but there should bea threshold way above 50%. if 1in 2 people are unhappy with a vote it doesn't really represent the will of the people even though it is technically democracy

Why are the calling americas Democracy Colon a snake? Its foundational to the shit system! No respect for tradition I tell ya

It's crazy to me that the margins are still so thin right now. Six states have a less than 2% difference between the candidates, any random event could swing the election right now. Trump is lucky Puerto Ricans can't vote lol

Four years before a presidential election, each state gets to make its case to be "The One!"

Its kind of like America's Got Talent or one of those shows where people sing at a panel of celebrities.

After 4 years of making their individual cases, slowly having the number of competitors winnowed down by viewer votes, the final state gets to be "The One!". The only state that matters during the presidential election. Think about it? All the wasted resources trying to campaign in states where a candidate KNOWS they aren't going to win, knows that the Electoral College invalidates the votes FOR all of the candidates that didn't get the majority. All the plane trips, all the Secret Service and local cops having to fuck up traffic in every city or town during a political event, all the campaign ads spread out inefficiently across the entire 50 states and US territories, all the handwringing about voting for the lesser of two monstrous evils... can just be focused at the state that gets to be "The One!" this year.

If the number of Trump billboards in and around Philly are any indication, yeah

When I saw Trump speak months ago I was sure he was cooked. Should never have doubted Dems ability to lose from a position of strength

Is that true, he only needs to win PA? And what about the dems do they need to win PA and more?

More or less.

Current odds I've seen is that Pa is 'the state' that decides the election about 1/3 of the time, with the other 6 'battleground' state making up most of the rest of the 2/3s

Am I drunk or does that… graph(?) make no sense

So one side has 16 states and the other has 10 for the same amount?

So the big wet boy only needs to win Pennsylvania, is that right?

Nah, you're misreading the graph mate