re: The main reason I love Trump more today than a few weeks ago

Fair points.

Didnt one of Trump appointees get in trouble with email stuff when she was a governor of her state?

He lost the popular vote

I'm just refuting what you said. None of that shite matters with the electoral college. And I didn't vote for Hillary.

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Didnt one of Trump appointees get in trouble with email stuff when she was a governor of her state?

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Well you just showed how little you know about Trump's appointees.

He's appointed exactly one female former governor to a cabinet position - Nikki Haley - who was confirmed by the senate in a 96-4 vote.

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He lost the popular vote

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Scoreboard>>>yards gained

Read on Twitter yesterday(so obviously take it with a grain of salt) that 82% of Americans did NOT vote for Trump. That's taking into consideration HRC voters, 3rd party voters, those ineligible to vote, and those eligible that did not vote.

I didn't drill down into the linked article to verify the info, but that is a staggering number if accurate.

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"I know the guys at Goldman Sachs. They have total, total control over (Ted Cruz). Just like they have total control over Hillary Clinton," he said earlier this year during the primaries.

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Trump first picked former Goldman Sachs investment banker and managing partner Steve Bannon to be the White House chief strategist. Then, on Wednesday, Trump tapped 17-year Goldman veteran Steven Mnuchin for Treasury secretary. Now, he is meeting with current Goldman Sachs President and COO Gary Cohn, who is reportedly under consideration to be director of the Office of Management and Budget.

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How forthright of Trump

I can hear the swamp overflowing

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Read on Twitter yesterday(so obviously take it with a grain of salt) that 82% of Americans did NOT vote for Trump. That's taking into consideration HRC voters, 3rd party voters, those ineligible to vote, and those eligible that did not vote.

I didn't drill down into the linked article to verify the info, but that is a staggering number if accurate.

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It is reasonably accurate, but misleading. Trump got 63 million votes. The US population is 323 million, so that's 19.5%. The misleading part is that it isn't terribly outside the norm. Only 20.4% of the population cast a ballot for HRC.

Why is it misleading?

Using the same terminology, 80% of Americans didn't vote for BHO in 2012 and 77% didn't in 2008.

Going back further, 83% of America didn't vote for Bill Clinton in 1992 and again in 1996 - so using that metric, I could just as accurately say that a higher percentage of all Americans voted for Donald Trump than voted for Bill Clinton.

In Ronald Reagan's two devastating wins, he only got 19.5 & 23 percent of the total population's vote.

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Whatever the number is, he didn't win it. And somehow it's being justified. if the results were reversed there would be an uprising from Trump supporters, and rightfully so. But since it worked out for them, we will continue on business as usual and they will criticize those who protest.

Everyone hates cheating until the cheating benefits them I reckon.

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What cheating?

The EC is how we elect presidents. When it works against your side, you'll get pissed but that doesn't mean anybody cheated.

Trump played the electoral map perfectly. At midnight he was in Michigan - which he won. Clinton DIDN'T EVEN GO to a lot of those rust belt states because she just assumed they were in the bag.

Quite honestly, we need the EC now more than ever because when you look at the county level map, we're a nation of a vast sea of red surrounding a very few islands of deep, deep blue. Republicans are three state houses (one chamber only) from being able to amend the constitution without involving congress. If all those people felt like they were going to be controlled by those very few areas, the turmoil of today would look downright utopian.