2016-11-11, 09:42 AM
He played the system as it was meant to be played. If the popular vote was what he had needed, he would have gotten that instead. Going for the popular vote when it means nothing would be losing just to prove a meaningless point in our current political atmosphere, all it would have done was spark a ton of conflict. He was trying to win both and he may still win both when all votes are tallied, he was doing 5+ rallies a day in 3-5 states, he was on the trail from morning until after midnight every single day for months, but his main focus was the electoral college and his secondary was the popular. His rallies were all focused on places he KNEW he could win as opposed to places where he would have GOTTEN MORE VOTES for going to. If he had campaigned in deep blue states he would have gotten a much bigger actual VOTE flip than campaigning in battleground states, doing rallies in those would get him much fewer votes but the fact is, he NEEDED much fewer votes in those places in order to win in our current system. That is how things work here. I don't like it, he doesn't like it, but that's how it works you can only prove a point when you WIN, you can only change things when you WIN.