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Re:DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon by egypturnash on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @01:41PM (#16640533)
> And democracy means majority rules. As simple as that.

Popular vote totals:

62,984,825: Trump 65,853,516: Clinton

Vote weights, per state, due to the electoral college: https://theconversation.com/whose-votes-count-the-least-in-t...

Also of course there are things like gerrymandering and voter suppression to consider. Democracy is a pretty complicated mess.

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Re:DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon by gaius on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:16PM (#16642498)
Oh please give it a rest with the “popular vote” crap. Everyone knew the rules, and the very good reasons behind them. And we all know perfectly well that all this CA outrage would be a complete non-story if the other side had used them.
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Re:DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon by pound on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:01PM (#16640733)
That's not about democracy per se, that's electoral college/states specifics.

Still democracy in general is exactly "majority rules". In democratic society of 100 people opinion of 51 would be enough to trump and ignore whatever remaining 49 want.

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