Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: OT: "Every American"... Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 10:41:07 -0600 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <050220171628136544%timstreater@greenbee.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net M8wWbR9DJQDVkxNvlKOzvQSf4TSBXvSmAB7NRsVbXu9H44EfVi Cancel-Lock: sha1:8ezyRUYNe72Wk0pII7Jg9w7HWLo= User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:99577 On 2017-02-05 16:28:13 +0000, Tim Streater said: > In article , Tim McNamara > wrote: > >> On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 03:58:14 -0500, FPP wrote: >> >>> All I can say is "Don't blame Trump." >>> >>> He did absolutely **everything** humanly possible to show us that he >>> was completely unqualified, unsuited, and unfit to hold the office of >>> the Presidency. >>> >>> We just didn't listen... and over half of us didn't care. >> >> More than half of voters voted for Hillary Clinton- by a margin of >> nearly 3 million. Trump was effectively elected by a handful of voters >> in a handful of counties in three states- states where, let's face it, >> the Clinton campaign took things for granted. > > Well that's how the electoral college works, isn't it. Both sides knew > that and both sides should therefore have campaigned with that in mind. > One would assume that both sides did, and the winner was therefore more > effective in getting the vote out where it counted. > > If you don't like that system then work to get it changed. The party of the people, Democarts, ignored all people not in big cities and have been taking positions well to the left of people not in those cities for a lot of years. IOW, they have been out of touch with what used to be their base.