Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast

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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only people who like the electoral college are people who lose the popular vote

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Our founding fathers did not like democracy and took steps to keep our republic running by implementing the superior electoral college system.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What is superior about it at all? That it gives disproportional voting power to a few states?

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    • LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They also thought slaves should count as 3/5 of a person for representation purposes.

      So maybe we shouldn’t hold up their anti-democratic streak as an ideal.

      But reactionaries are gonna reactionary.

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• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’ll be investing to see how the numbers change after the debate. I suspect we will see Kamala drop even further.

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  • squid_slime@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    aged like fine milk

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Polls haven’t come out yet. During the debate, independent dropped for Kamala by 7 points.

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