You have no one to blame but yourselves running corruption incarnate as your candidate, a feeling I think expressed quite loudly the other day by many of my fellow Americans. Frankly I'd have voted for Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein if that was what was necessary to keep Clinton out of the Oval office.
#NotMyPresident
Got news for you, he's as much your President as Obama has been our President for the past eight years. Get Over It... if it makes you little snowflakes happy we'll send Hillary a Participation Trophy.
Anti-Trump Protests. Really? What are you protesting? The choice of your fellow Americans? Have at it, frankly we don't give care. While I respect your right to assemble and protest I'm not paying any more attention to you than I would a child throwing a tantrum.
Yes, Clinton has at the moment a slight lead in the popular vote between her and Trump of about 200,000 votes, but we don't elect presidents by popular vote and you have the same proportional representation in the electoral college that you have in the legislatures. As it stands right now Hillary Clinton has 59,814,018 votes... but 65,685,400 didn't vote for Clinton. Clearly the majority didn't want Clinton, so quit your whingeing.
Kind of makes you think we'd be better off if the boats had sunk.
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The way it works is this, candidates must "have a level of support of at least 15 percent of the national
electorate as determined by five selected national public opinion
polling organizations, using the average of those organizations’ most
recently publicly-reported results" CPD
Let us set aside the question of whether or not the CPD is "non-partisan" and ask this question...
Are the polls selected for inclusion non-partisan?
The polls for this year are:
ABC-Washington Post
CBS-New York Times
CNN-Opinion Research Corporation
Fox News
NBC-Wall Street Journal
And the "CPD has retained Dr. Frank Newport, Editor-in-Chief of Gallup, to assist
it in selecting the five national public opinion polls to be used in
applying the criteria."
Is Frank Newport "non-partisan"?
Of the five polls selected Jill Stein only appears in three of them, Gary Johnson only in four.
Let's say Jill Stein polls 16% in her three polls.
16+16+16+0+0/5 = 9.6%
In order to meet the 15% criteria for inclusion Jill Stein would have to score 25 percent on each of her polls, or better. Gary Johnson will have to score better than 18.75 on his four polls to be included.
While the CPD may be "non-partisan" the polls themselves are not "non-partisan" unless they include all the candidates running.
