2016-12-19, 07:53 PM
xparasite9 Wrote:They failed so hard with their pleading that they made more people change their vote away from hillary than away from trump
That was actually entirely intentional. Hillary had no chance of winning; They were trying to stack the deck with other options for a 3rd because the senate can only pick from the top 3 electoral college recipients if neither candidate had the required majority, and Trump and Hillary were already in slots #1 and #2, so some of them tried to push for other options as an upset to give the Republican controlled Senate better options than going Trump anyway just to avoid Hillary. Not a bad gambit had more Trump people actually defected, since they were unlikely to all pick the same candidate, and nothing lost on the democrats side regardless.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.