• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Trump does still lead in our national average — however narrowly. But the bigger problem for Biden though is that elections in the United States aren’t determined by the popular vote.

    That’s a problem for all of us. If the president were elected by popular vote, Trump would never have been president.

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      5 months ago

      Neither would George W. Bush. Republicans have won the popular vote only once in the last 32 years, and that was Bush as the incumbent in 2004 - which wouldn’t have happened had Gore been the incumbent.

      This is a center-left country, with an election system that gives extreme right-wingers oversized influence.

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          5 months ago

          The left is larger than the right, here. How does that make it not a center-left country? We’re sure as hell not a right-wing country, and much of our government is an accident of antiquated and stupid systems, not a true reflection of the people.

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            5 months ago

            Those that think they are on the left is larger. When they support politicians viewed around the world as right wing, they too are right wing