Trump to name next Supreme Court Justice soon

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Fair enough. Just remember, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

And that happened with Obama and now it’s happening with Trump much to our chagrin. And it all started with that bitter 2000 election. Doubled down on when the 2016 election happened. When you win and still lose that’ll happen. Had we turned the tables the GOP would have also done the same thing.

Democrats didn't win in either 2000 or 2016.

In any other country it would be a win. We have an outdated bassackwards system. So when you get more votes and still lose it stings.

Bush and Trump both passed the 270 threshold, so they both won.

And this is true... but it’s a fluke in our system that the two don’t match and so when you win the popular vote or will of the people... and you still lose it stings. If we flipped the script you’d be whining till the cows came home and then some.

[Matt]

Fair enough. Just remember, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

And that happened with Obama and now it’s happening with Trump much to our chagrin. And it all started with that bitter 2000 election. Doubled down on when the 2016 election happened. When you win and still lose that’ll happen. Had we turned the tables the GOP would have also done the same thing.

Democrats didn't win in either 2000 or 2016.

In any other country it would be a win. We have an outdated bassackwards system. So when you get more votes and still lose it stings.

Bush and Trump both passed the 270 threshold, so they both won.

And this is true... but it’s a fluke in our system that the two don’t match and so when you win the popular vote or will of the people... and you still lose it stings. If we flipped the script you’d be whining till the cows came home and then some.

The electoral college protects against fraud. There aren't many places that have the same governmental structure we have either. Bush likely would have won the popular vote if not for the DUI arrest report the Friday before the election.

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Fair enough. Just remember, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

And that happened with Obama and now it’s happening with Trump much to our chagrin. And it all started with that bitter 2000 election. Doubled down on when the 2016 election happened. When you win and still lose that’ll happen. Had we turned the tables the GOP would have also done the same thing.

Democrats didn't win in either 2000 or 2016.

In any other country it would be a win. We have an outdated bassackwards system. So when you get more votes and still lose it stings.

Bush and Trump both passed the 270 threshold, so they both won.

And this is true... but it’s a fluke in our system that the two don’t match and so when you win the popular vote or will of the people... and you still lose it stings. If we flipped the script you’d be whining till the cows came home and then some.

The electoral college protects against fraud. There aren't many places that have the same governmental structure we have either. Bush likely would have won the popular vote if not for the DUI arrest report the Friday before the election.

It was supposed to protect against stupid people actually. The whole point was an immense distrust of the common man. Fraud had nothing to do with it. We are at a point where it’s an archaic system. We are all adults and we can choose without the help of a crutch system that was meant to override the will of the people but really hasn’t ever worked that way.

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It would be funny, if it weren't so wrong.

[zzand]

Actually the Electoral College is to ensure less populated states have a voice in the election and not just densely populated states. I guess you missed that day in class in high school. Back to the original reason for this thread, The official announcement will be made Saturday and Romney supports filling thew seat NOW.

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Romney has come out in favor of a pre election confirmation. It's all over but the crying now.

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Actually the Electoral College is to ensure less populated states have a voice in the election and not just densely populated states. I guess you missed that day in class in high school. Back to the original reason for this thread, The official announcement will be made Saturday and Romney supports filling thew seat NOW.

Ding!

[Bryce]

Well, lets see how many men the democrats trot out claiming Amy Coney Barrett molested them in high school.

Now that a few day's have passed. I have a question. How did a lead litigator for the ACLU get nominated, much less appointed, to the SCOTUS anyway? If someone ever nominated a lawyer that works for say the Heritage Foundation or John Birch Society, what chance do you think that person would have?

[Bryce]

Actually the Electoral College is to ensure less populated states have a voice in the election and not just densely populated states. I guess you missed that day in class in high school. Back to the original reason for this thread, The official announcement will be made Saturday and Romney supports filling thew seat NOW.

Ding!

And, I will add to that the fact that the Constitution had little chance of being ratified without it.

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Well, lets see how many men the democrats trot out claiming Amy Coney Barrett molested them in high school.

Now that a few day's have passed. I have a question. How did a lead litigator for the ACLU get nominated, much less appointed, to the SCOTUS anyway? If someone ever nominated a lawyer that works for say the Heritage Foundation or John Birch Society, what chance do you think that person would have?

Democrats use the courts to "pass" what they couldn't do legislatively.

I don't like all of Roberts, Souter, Kennedy decisions but the conservative nominees aren't hacks either.

Sotomayor and Kagan are hacks.

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I am sure Blausey Ford will come forward to say she was in the room at the infamous party only she remembers

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Democrats use the courts to "pass" what they couldn't do legislatively.

I don't like all of Roberts, Souter, Kennedy decisions but the conservative nominees aren't hacks either.

Sotomayor and Kagan are hacks.

now we get it even. if Mr Trump lose the court can make him win

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YEP!

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YEP!

The statistics are wrong, it was 2626 to 487 and he needed to win so many because some of those counties have 500 or fewer people so effectively it’s a lot of land area but there’s nobody there. As for the popular vote margin in New York City... that’s addressed below but there are not 63 million people there. So it does not account for her 2.8 million margin. This person bought a chain email and decided to use it In a letter to the editor which is frightening:

The anonymous author of this email may have gotten these numbers from a Breitbart News article written by Michael Patrick Leahy and published on Nov. 15, a week after the election. But the email twists the information from the article.

Leahy wrote that “Donald Trump won an overwhelming 7.5 million popular vote victory in 3,084 of the country’s 3,141 counties or county equivalents in America’s heartland.”

He isn’t saying that Trump won all 3,084 counties outright, just that in those 3,084 counties in what he calls “America’s heartland,” Trump won the popular vote by a large margin.

Leahy also wrote that “Hillary Clinton, in contrast, had an 8.2 million vote margin in a narrow band of 52 coastal counties and five ‘county equivalent’ cities stretching from San Diego to Seattle on the West Coast and Northern Virginia to Boston on the East Coast.”

It’s pretty easy to disprove the email’s very different claim, which is that Trump won all of the 3,084 counties that Leahy looked at in his “heartland” exercise, and that Clinton won only 57 overall.

Let’s look at Texas and Georgia – two states that Clinton lost.

In Texas, which has 38 electoral votes, Clinton won 27 counties. And in Georgia, which has 16 electoral votes, Clinton won 31 counties. That’s 58 counties without including any counties that Clinton won in any of the other states, including in the 20 states that she carried in the election.

The Associated Press debunked the claim that Clinton only won 57 counties across the country in an article published Dec. 6.

“The Associated Press finds that Clinton won 487 counties nationwide, compared with 2,626 for President-elect Donald Trump,” the article says.

The news agency said that it “considers parishes in Louisiana as counties in election tallies” and that “Virginia’s count includes 95 counties and 38 independent cities.”

The AP’s totals for Clinton and Trump are very close to what PolitiFact.com reported. The nonpartisan fact-checking website found that Clinton and Trump won 489 and 2,623 counties, respectively, based on preliminary county results from David Leip’s “Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.”

As for that last claim in the email about New York, the numbers are largely correct. There are 62 counties in the state, and, as the email claimed, Trump won 46 of them and Clinton won 16. Clinton’s lead in the five counties that make up New York City is exaggerated, though. She received about 1.5 million more votes than Trump in those five counties, not the “well over 2 million” claimed in the email.

The difference in population size among counties can be dramatic — for example, Census data show that Kings County, New York, which is in Brooklyn (and which Clinton won), has a population of 2.6 million people, while Petroleum County, Montana (which Trump won) has 475 people. So, even though Trump won more counties, Clinton is leading in the national popular vote by nearly 2.7 million votes, according to the latest tally from David Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report as of Dec. 9.

https://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/clinton-counties/