Donald Trump may have gained more E*******l College v**es on E******n Day, but the president-elect is significantly trailing behind his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton by more than 1.7 million popular v**es as of Monday, according to a Cook Political Report analysis. Since the official e******n on Nov. 8, Trump has won 61,900,651 popular v**es.

Clinton’s popular v**es continue to climb closer toward President Barak Obama’s 2012 e******n v**es. As of Monday morning, Clinton had 63,620,704 v**es. Back in 2012 when Obama ran against Mitt Romney, Obama won with a total of 65,915,795 v**es. Clinton has stayed in the lead, with 48 percent of the popular v**e, while Trump has maintained 46.7 percent.

So a man who gained his office by dividing the country and fueling division with r****t comments is offended that a group of minorities had the gaul to express their fears and ask (in language significantly more respectful than that of the president-elect and many of the folks here on OPP) that they not be forgotten?

Indeed, I can't see how anyone could be even surprised at that statement from a multi-racial cast telling a chapter of our history with rap.

Once again Trump is trying to distract us with this non-story while he puts on his own Broadway show parading possible recipients of his political largesse through his golf club and palatial penthouse.

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump
This e******n is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!
9:33 PM - 6 Nov 2012
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The Donald nails it! Finally something sane and true comes out of his mouth. And we will continue to be a great Republic if the E*******l College does the right thing--what it was designed for, to keep demagogues and the unqualified out office—and dumps Trump. (Not likely but love of this country keeps that dream alive.)

Reading the many ugly and stupid things Trump has said, and doubled-down on, it is clear he was not elected for being p**********l. Obviously a lot of anger, fear and h**e over the present state of America and the world, and not his character, cast the b****t. It should be clear no one actually v**ed for Trump but for his d******e rhetoric.
After being elected, he continued being the The Donald, calling the protesters of his e******n “professionals” and “instigated by the media” (which he eventually walked back); ranting against instead of reassuring the cast of “Hamilton”; not laughing the SNL spoof off like all former presidents going back to Carter but whining for equal time. The office has not changed this emotional midget yet. America is in very big trouble if he continues in his childish tantrums. Like saying that he would attack Iran if they made bad gestures at our Navy. A playground bully.

1 “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, I’d perhaps be dating her.”

2 Donald Trump is calling for a total shutdown of Muslims from entering the United States till our country’s representatives can figure out what is happening

3 “All the women on The Apprentice flirted with me, consciously or unconsciously–that’s to be expected.”

4 “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”

5 “You wouldn’t have your job if you weren’t beautiful.”
Said to the reporter of a Right Wing media agent that his staff roughed up.

6 “I will build a wall and make Mexico pay for that wall.”

7 “I am prepared to let South Korea and Japan become nuclear powers.”

8 “We need unpredictability”–Trump on the use of nuclear weapons

9 “I’d bring back waterboarding and a lot worse.”
And so ends the reputation of decency, honor, and human rights that once were ideals of America.

10. “One of they key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.”
Well at least he’s showing some self awareness.
11. “The beauty of me is that I’m very rich.”
And not that fabulous barnet of yours?
12. “It’s freezing and snowing in New York – we need g****l w*****g!”
Definitely not missing the point…
13. “I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
This needed to be repeated. Possibly (/definitely) one of the creepiest things we’ve ever heard…
14. “My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.”
Ew.
15. “I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.”
We’re glad he’s so concerned about the obesity crisis.
16. “I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.”
Women aren’t possessions, Donald. They can’t belong to you.
17. “You’re d********g.”
To put this into context, Donald Trump said this to the opposing lawyer during a court case when she asked for a medical break to pump breast milk for her three-month-old daughter.
18. “The point is, you can never be too greedy.”
As all the contractors he hired, students who attended his “university,” and many others he has shafted will testify.
19. “Sorry, there is no STAR on the stage tonight!”
In his Twitter liveblogging of the Democratic debate, Trump seemed to think he was watching a talent show rather than looking for the next POTUS.
20. “My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the t***h.”
We think Donald may be overestimating the power of Twitter. But he does love his wee hours of the morning rants.
21. “My IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure; it’s not your fault.”
Don’t worry, we won’t. But is an impressive 155.
22. “I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.”
What does that even mean?
23. “The other candidates — they went in, they didn’t know the air conditioning didn’t work. They sweated like dogs…How are they gonna beat ISIS? I don’t think it’s gonna happen.” 
Because sweating = the inability to solve a political crisis. Gotcha.

24. “Look at those hands, are they small hands? And, [Republican rival Marco Rubio] referred to my hands: ‘If they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”
Along with the petition to keep him out of the UK, can we also campaign for Trump to stop talking about his penis?
25. “Thanks sweetie. That’s nice”
Said Donald in typically patronising style to a female 9/11 survivor. Inappropriate – and quite creepy.
26. “Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
Threatening your opponent’s wife on Twitter? Stay classy, Don… And there was nothing to spill, just Trump being his usuall vile self.
27. “I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down”
Ah 7-Eleven, great convenience store, and def not to be confused with a national tragedy and symbol of global terrorism, eh Trump?
28. “The only card [Hillary Clinton] has is the woman’s card. She’s got nothing else to offer and frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the v**e. The only thing she’s got going is the woman’s card, and the beautiful thing is, women don’t like her.”
Speaking from a, errr, woman’s perspective, we reckon ol’ Trumpy may be a little off with this one.
29. “Number one, I have great respect for women. I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women, more than anybody in the construction industry.”
Thank you Donald. Thank you for all your help. A lie, but thank you.
30. “I’m just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the e******n and just give it to Trump, right?”

Read more at http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/people/donald-trump-quotes-57213#bDwGTH41xydaJ2WZ.99


"40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan... And now it’s the tallest." –Donald Trump, bragging about his building following the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in an interview with WWOR/UPN 9 News in New York (Sept. 11, 2001)

"Iraq and Iran were very similar militarily, and they’d fight, fight, fight, and then they’d rest. They’d fight, fight, fight, and then Saddam Hussein would do the gas, and somebody else would do something else, and they’d rest." –Donald Trump, demonstrating his knowledge of foreign policy at a town hall meeting in Virginia Beach, VA (Sept. 6, 2016)

"If she gets to pick her judges – nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people. Maybe there is. I don’t know." –Donald Trump, in what many interpreted to be a suggestion that someone might shoot Hillary Clinton, her Supreme Court picks, or both, Wilmington, North Carolina campaign rally, August 9, 2016

"Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?" –Donald Trump, reportedly asking a foreign policy adviser three times during a meeting why the U.S. couldn’t use its nuclear weapons stockpile, according to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough. This is questionable because there is no direct source, yet at several other times Trump said the same thing.

In an interview with Chris Matthews, Trump stated “Somebody hits us within ISIS — you wouldn`t fight back with a nuke?” And further after that comment:
MATTHEWS: “OK. The trouble is, when you said that, the whole world heard it. David Cameron in Britain heard it. The Japanese, where we bombed them in 45, heard it. They`re hearing a guy running for president of the United States talking of maybe using nuclear weapons. Nobody wants to hear that about an American president.”
TRUMP: “Then why are we making them? Why do we make them?”
In a follow up interview with Bolling:
TRUMP: Well, I don’t want to take cards off the table. I would never do that. The last person to press that button would be me. Hey, I’m the one that didn’t want to go into Iraq from the beginning. The last person that wants to play the nuclear card believe me is me. But you can never take cards off the table either from a moral stand — from any standpoint and certainly from a negotiating standpoint.
BOLLING: Donald, I understand they are not taking the cards off the table for ISIS or Islamic terror. But when Chris expanded to Europe, what about that?
TRUMP: Europe is a big place. I’m not going to take cards off the table. We have nuclear capability. Now, our capability is going down rapidly because of what we’re doing. It’s in bad shape. The equipment is not properly maintained. There are all lot of talk about that. And that’s a bad thing not a good thing. The last person to use nuclear would be Donald Trump. That’s the way I feel. I think it is a horrible thing. The thought of it is horrible. But I don’t want to take anything off the table. We have to negotiate. There will be times maybe when we’re going to be in a very deep, very difficult, very horrible negotiation. The last person — I’m not going to take it off the table. And I said it yesterday. And I stay with it.

WALLACE: You want to have a nuclear arms race on the Korean peninsula?
TRUMP: In many ways, and I say this, in many ways, the world is changing. Right now, you have Pakistan and you have North Korea and you have China and you have Russia and you have India and you have the United States and many other countries have nukes.
WALLACE: Understood.
TRUMP: It’s not like, gee whiz, nobody has them.

eagle... Vladmir is correct. The constitutional republic that our founders designed IS a form of democracy. What part of that do you not actually understand?

I have my theories about why YouTube graduates think otherwise... One theory is that there is an effort on the right to demonize the Democratic Party and since the "Democratic" implies a democracy, democracy itself must be stricken from the very essence of who we are as Americans. LOL. It's a silly theory, but it's also plausible given the silliness of such assertions that our system was never designed to be a democracy and when you think about how "Republican" implies a republic, which is what people are saying we are rather than a democracy just makes it that much more believable.

Look, think of all the different systems there are. All the different systems there have been over the course of human history... All these systems can be divided into two categories. A category where the people have a voice and the category where they don't. One is called democracy and the other is called tyranny. It's actually more accurate to say that all systems fall somewhere in between the two polar opposites with varying degrees of democracy.

A republic doesn't even play into this dichotomy. A republic belongs to an entirely different spectrum, whether you have a monarch or not.

So, apples and oranges... it's tyranny vs democracy or republic vs monarchy. Totally different comparisons and you can mix and match, imagine that?

Saudi Arabia = tyrannical monarchy
United Kingdom = democratic monarchy
Syria = tyrannical republic
United States = democratic republic

See how that works?

What E******ns Would Look Like WITHOUT E*******l College

http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WithoutElecoralCollege.jpg

The Federalist Papers Project ~ November 19, 2016
Seth Connell reports that as the whining over the results of the P**********l e******n continues, one Democratic Senator is taking it to a whole new level and is proposing a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the E*******l College.

Since Hillary Clinton narrowly won the popular v**e, the Left is bringing up old arguments that the E*******l College is undemocratic and only a national popular v**e is suitable for P**********l e******ns.

As long as the result is a Democratic President, of course…

As The Hill reported:

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will introduce legislation on Tuesday to get rid of the E*******l College, after Hillary Clinton lost the p**********l e******n despite leading in the popular v**e.

“In my lifetime, I have seen two e******ns where the winner of the general e******n did not win the popular v**e,” Boxer said in a statement. “In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted, ‘The e*******l college is a disaster for a democracy. I couldn’t agree more. One person, one v**e!”

She added that Clinton, whom she supported, is “on track to have received more v**es than any other p**********l candidate in history except Barack Obama.”

“The E*******l College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately,” she said.

The glaring problem here is not that the system is r****d to help r****t candidates oppress minorities (yes, some outlets claim that). The problem is that Barbara Boxer, and many on the Left, fundamentally misunderstand the importance of the E*******l College.

This system is in place to thwart the rise of demagogues, secure separation of powers, and enable smaller states to have a say in the e*******l process. And, for the most part, it has worked fairly well.

First, the issue with a national popular v**e is that demagogues, those who ride waves of passion that override better judgment, often can rise up and take sweeping powers with a popular mandate. However, that is how liberty dies (and often with a thunderous applause, I might add).

The E*******l College exists to protect people from themselves, and to prevent demagogues from playing off the fickle passions of the people. Socialists and F*****ts are experts in demagoguery, and will use any and all means available to them to exploit tragedy to advance a totalitarian political agenda.

The E*******l College acts as a barrier by turning what would be one national e******n into 51 separate e******ns. It is much harder to win that kind of e******n as a demagogue than it is to win just one e******n nationally.

Second, the E*******l College acts as a separation of power. If the P**********l e******n were merely done by national popular v**e, the states would have effectively no say in the e*******l process. The system as designed enables state participation in the process of electing a national official.

The states are a critical part of the federal system. In electing the Executive, they must not be left out of the process (and we already k**led their representation in the Senate, so now it is even more important to keep the E*******l College in place).

Third, it ensures that smaller states are not drowned out by larger ones. If the P**********l e******n were done by national popular v**e, smaller states that occupy most of the middle United States would be neglected, totally forgotten in the process.

The E*******l College ensures that the smaller states have a say in the e******n. Hence, it is democratic to have this e*******l system in place.

Another way to look at the E*******l College is to consider it like the World Series. Sure, throughout the entirety of the series one team may score more runs than the other team, but it is the result of each game that determines the winner of the series.

Just because one team outscored the other by 100 runs does not mean that the team with the most runs wins. It is the team that wins the most games. The same principle applies to the E*******l College.

As one last addendum, Business Insider put together a map of population density to show why the E*******l College is a good thing:

http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/e*******l-college-population.jpg

Now, if the E*******l College did not exist, what would happen to the grey counties? They would be forgotten, they would not matter. Only the most heavily populated areas would be courted for v**es.

The E*******l College, contrary to the inklings of the Left, IS a democratic method of e******n, and it must be kept that way.

http://www.prageru.com/courses/political-science/popular-v**e-vs-e*******l-college

So for the fifth time in U.S. history a president has been elected by the unpopular v**e, which is to say the e*******l college v**ed against the will of the popular v**e (majority of American v**ers). The first time this happened was in 1824 resulting in the e******n of a Democratic-Republican, the rest of the unpopular v**es all went to Republicans, most recently in 2000 when Bush won the e******n despite the fact that half a million more Americans actually v**ed for Gore. In 2016 it happened again, this time by an even wider margin... close to a million more Americans actually v**ed for Clinton than Trump.

At first glance it seems Trump was right in saying the e******ns are r****d and there's a pretty strong feeling among the people that it's time to ditch the e*******l college. But there was an argument during the Constitutional Convention of 1789 against the popular v**e, mostly based on the idea that smaller states would be disadvantaged if that were allowed. Details of the argument can be found in the Federalist Papers No. 39 (James Madison) and No. 68 (Alexander Hamilton).

I personally feel these arguments are outdated. First of all, much of these arguments spring from a context where states had more power and so the equalization between states made more sense. Secondly, representation of the people at the federal level was also stronger and so it made sense to use congressional representation as a basis. But both conditions have changed dramatically. Commerce is increasingly expanding beyond the control of the state, making the state vs state argument less relevant. And as the population continues to grow, federal representation stays at 435 seats... this results in ever decreasing citizen to representative ratios and since population growth is typically higher in regions with already higher populations it's the citizens in those regions that are loosing democratic power the fastest.

For the 2016 e******n the citizens with the most federal v****g power were in Wyoming where it only takes 187,875 v**ers to equal one e*******l v**e. The citizens in California, where it takes 677,345 v**ers to equal on e*******l v**e, the citizens suffer the least federal v****g power. Pair this with the fact that in terms of funding Wyoming takes more from the federal government than it takes while California gives more to the federal government than it takes... Well, the situation becomes even more preposterous.

The American people are already getting tired of political games. Eventually, enough of them are going to figure some of them out, such as the e*******l college and it's going to be harder to continue marginalizing the demand for better representation.