working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

Don't like snopes? How about you count the counties then?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/2016_Nationwide_US_p**********l_county_map_shaded_by_v**e_share.svg/1280px-2016_Nationwide_US_p**********l_county_map_shaded_by_v**e_share.svg.png

redpill Loc: Oregon - not PDX

I can't anything else to the excellent replies to your i***tic statement.

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

I notice there are two states, Oklahoma and West Virginia, where not a single county v**ed Democrat.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Don't see your logic that the will of the people should be the congested areas of liberals and or socialist.

Bcon

That is because it is liberal loco logic.

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

Without the E*******l College only the states with the biggest population would pick the President like Calif /Texas and all of the Eastern coast all the smaller states with less population would be tough out of luck and would have no say what so after !

I'm guessing you are a Democrat and I understand where you're coming from but it's still not right !

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

You don't see the logic? Okay, honestly I h**ed logic in school, but that was math. Anyway let's try to make it easier for you. California, NY, and Florida. Those 3 states 'could' determine the entire e******n if not for the e*******l college. Meaning if you don't live in those states, don't waste your time v****g. Or it could be some other bunch of states. Or do you want a r****d e******n again?

redpill Loc: Oregon - not PDX

How about the logic of the founding fathers...

https://www.historycentral.com/e******ns/E*******lcollgewhy.html

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

No Bill Robinson, no. The states select the president



The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates - New York Yankees Word Series & The E*******l College



In the 1960 World Series between The New York Yankees & The Pittsburgh Pirates, The Yankees outscored The Pirates 55-27, a margin of more than 100%, yet lost The Series. The Yankees destroyed Pirates pitching in just about every game they won. One score was 16-3, resembling a football score. In every game The Yankees won, their margin of victory was more than The Pirates’ total margin for all their victories.

That Yankee team had Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra & Whitey Ford, all future Hall of Famers. It also had Roger Maris, Tony Kubek, a former Rookie of the Year, Bobby Richardson & Bill Skowron. The line-up would give any pitcher nightmares. Defensively, they were top notch and held up terrifically against Pittsburgh. Yet they lost The Series four games to three.

The 1950s had been the decade of Yankee dominance in baseball like no other team in history. They’d won the title six times and the pennant eight times. They’d not gone to the Series the previous year, 1959 and in 1954. The Pirates hadn’t won a series since 1925 nor a pennant since. The Yankees were strong favorites.

It remains the only World Series that a player, Bobby Richardson. from the losing team won The MVP Award. Richardson collected twelve hits. Many of the sports writers who would v**e left after the Yankees batted in the top half of the eighth inning when The Yankees were comfortably ahead 7-4.

Few anticipated The Pirates comeback. They scored five runs to go ahead in the bottom of the eighth, 9-7. The Yankees tied it in the top of the ninth to leave the score 9-9. Bill Mazeroski led off The Pirates bottom of the ninth with a solo home run to right field for the only so-called walk-off home run in World Series history. It was hardly a walk-off since Mazeroski was mobbed by fans and team mates as he crossed home plate.

Mickey Mantle cried on the bus and plane back to New York City because it was the only time he thought the better team had lost.
He might have been right.

In the bottom of the eighth inning of the seventh game, Pittsburgh centerfielder Bill Virdon, hit a grounder right at shortstop Tony Kubek, one of the slickest infielders in baseball that The Yankees were always known for. The ball took an errant bounce and hit Kubek in the throat. He coughed and spat blood, so much so that the physicians almost had to perform emergency surgery so he could breathe. Kubek was out of the game.

It turned out, that there might have been some involvement of the Pittsburgh grounds crew in that. The infield was terrible. Balls had been taking odd bounces all through the Series. The grounds crew had been working on the infield for weeks prior to make it harder than it had been. The Pirates had those weeks to become accustomed to it but The Yankees had none.

But the ultimate point remains. The Pirates won one more game than the Yankees and, consequently, the Series.

It’s likely that things such is this have happened in other sports and maybe in baseball but especially in basketball with multiple seven game series in their playoffs. You have to win more contests. If you simply counted scores, all anyone would have to do at the end of a season would be to count the number of points or runs a team scored and award the championship to the highest scorer. That’s not how it works.

In 2016, Donald T***p w*n far more contests than Hillary Clinton.

Bcon

That is a problem. The logic is apparent but liberals who want to win no matter how much of the country is opposed to their thinking, refuse to be swayed. It is a blockage of sane thought.

redpill Loc: Oregon - not PDX

Nice run down. I never knew any of this (not much of a baseball fan ((OMG! I really must not be an American!))) Your point is clear. So if we dump the E*******l College, we should also dump all playoffs.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

The following link doesn't match up with the numbers of counties won in the original thread post, either...

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=number+of+counties+trump+won+2016&qpvt=number+of+counties+trump+won+2016&FORM=IGRE

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

I love maps and you posted a whole lot of them.

If you like maps, check out this link for e******n 2016 maps...they're pretty cool.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/e******n/2016/

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Thanks, WCS Those are really different...and interesting.

One could even say 'far out' and 'groovy.'

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

Yeah, a couple are 'disorienting'....but still fun.