Current Events > Electoral votes vs Popular votes. What the hell is going on?

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WizardofHoth
11/04/20 12:27:20 AM
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So what really matters in the presidential elections anyway?

Electoral votes should which are peoples votes where they vote for whoever.

Why are Popular Votes so damn important?

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ThePhantomMedic
11/04/20 12:27:51 AM
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its a show the patriots devised. play mgs 2
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Error1355
11/04/20 12:27:57 AM
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Our voting system is 100 years out of date.

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SevenTenths
11/04/20 12:27:58 AM
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Don't do drugs kids

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WizardofHoth
11/04/20 12:30:06 AM
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So far Trump has like 48 percent of Popular votes along with 145 electoral votes.

Biden he has 49 percent popular votes and is winning with 223 electoral votes.

So who's really winning? This is why I hate politics/government
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ThePhantomMedic
11/04/20 12:31:16 AM
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WizardofHoth posted...
So far Trump has like 48 percent of Popular votes along with 145 electoral votes.

Biden he has 49 percent popular votes and is winning with 223 electoral votes.

So who's really winning? This is why I hate politics/government
guess it depends where your watching the elections
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SomaMaxwell
11/04/20 12:32:22 AM
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Popular votes are our vote. Electorial votes are how many points you get for each state. So like Trump wins NC i think he gets 15 points from the electoral college towards the 270 he needs to win.

So even if more people vote for one candidate and they get the popular vote it doesn't matter if they didn't win any big ticket states and get more electoral votes.

My understanding of it anyway.

And biden is only winning in the sense that he is ahead in electoral votes. If they call all of the states that are favored for trump for trump he will have at least enough to win the electoral college.

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AlisLandale
11/04/20 12:33:03 AM
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In the countrys history, its actually pretty rare for there to be a discrepancy between the popular and electoral vote for the winner. Before 2000, there had been about a century since it last happened.

Electoral votes are what count, but until this Millenium they were functionally identical >_>

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