George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon

Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by endisukaj on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:23AM (#13479977)

The worst result in 80 years is winning the popular vote with a margin of about 3 million?

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by halflings on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:38AM (#13480036)

In an electoral system that doesn't take the popular vote into consideration? Yes. Democrats are now pretending that they lost "by chance", but their campaign (like the Republicans') is engineered and fine-tuned/optimized to get the swing states, not to optimize by how much they will win in traditionally blue states.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by XparXnoiAx on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:36AM (#13480030)

The worst election result is losing the house, senate, and presidency all at once. Look at who has power, not the votes.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by wtf_is_up on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:02AM (#13481394)

No, the worst result was losing the presidency, house, senate, and 3+ Supreme Court seats to Donald Trump.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by wallace_f on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:34AM (#13480026)

When your opponent is Donald Trump: Yes.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by camperman on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:35AM (#13480279)

Oh you want to go with popular votes? Then Bernie Sanders should have been your candidate by a big margin but was prevented by the DNC's superdelegate system.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by flukus on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:37AM (#13480286)

Congratulations for winning a game that wasn't being played.

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