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by cuckcuckspruce 2901 days ago
Which has been in place since the Constitution was ratified.

This sour grapes whining by Clinton supporters is like a baseball team complaining that they lost a baseball game because while they scored fewer runs they had more hits and fewer errors. Except that's not how baseball games are scored, and that's known from the beginning of the game.

(Just to get it out of my way: I did not vote for Trump, and I've never supported the man. I'm just sick of people complaining about losing by the rules of the system they knew was in place when they started.)

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I was replying to a comment that implied that Trump's win was based on having the greatest number of votes when he did not.
I could have been clearer but I certainly didn't mean to imply it was based on the overall vote rather refute the idea that the democrats lost on a technicality.