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On 8/24/2024 3:37 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:
> On 8/23/24 08:58, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 01:08:02 -0700, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/22/24 23:48, Mad Hamish wrote:
>>>
>>> [stuff deleted]
>>>
>>>>>     He won the Electoral College and Hillary Clinton won the
>>>>> popular vote.
>>>>>
>>>> Who landed on the moon first in your timeline?
>>>> Because in this one he won the 2016 election against Hilary Clinton
>>>> but lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
>>>
>>> The first statement was completely true. In 2016 Hillary won the popular
>>> vote, but scum bucket won the Electoral College. In 2020 Biden won the
>>> popular vote by an even larger margin than Hillary and the Electoral
>>> College.
>>
>> Hiller "won" the popular vote only by a plurality. To actually /win/ a
>> race based on the popular vote she would have had to get a majority.
> 
> I don't believe this is true in most cases. For example, take a race for 
> Governor of just about any state. Democrat candidate get 48%. Republican 
> candidate gets 47%. Greens get 3%. The remaining 2% gets split among 
> many fringe parties. The Democrat candidate will now be the Governor and 
> there won't be a run off.
> 
> This was true in Kansas, Nevada, and Oregon in the 2022 elections. See 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_gubernatorial_elections 
> for the actual info.
> 
> However, in the Primary elections, many parties require that a candidate 
> get a majority before being declared as the party's candidate.
> 
>>
>> IOW, if it were the popular vote that counted, 2016 would have seen a
>> runoff election [1] exactly two choices: Hillary and Trump. The
>> expectation being that one or the other would get more that 50% of the
>> votes.
> 
> Only if that is how the election laws were written. I think it would be 
> wildly impractical to hold multiple national elections.

Why? Lots of countries have elections with multiple rounds. France just
had one.

pt