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[–] cynoclast 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
No, democracy will.
There are 18 states that Democrats have won in every single election for the last 6 elections that add up to 242 electoral votes. There are only 13 that have always gone republican in that time and they only add up to 103 electoral votes. So it will be much easier for a Democrat to find 28 more electoral votes in the remaining 19 states than it will be for a republican to find 167 electoral votes in 19 states. And with trump being more despised among minorities than any president in recent history, he will lose fairly easily.
Trump being the frontrunner virtually guarantees a Democratic victory, regardless of candidate. So would your rather have Shillary or Sanders?
[–] ChurchHillBrowne [S] ago
If your Mathematical Logic is to prevail, does it not denote then that any Republican Nominee" would lose the Election???
If you're Mathematics are correct the United States of America should have long been a one(1) Party State....
[–] cynoclast ago
Not necessarily any, but Trump might appeal to some of the GOP, but not the nation. Every poll I've seen about the general is talking about whether or not Sanders or Shillary would beat him harder. Short of election fraud it's a foregone conclusion that he won't win.
It has been for decades: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-noam-chomsky-the-united-states-has-essentially-a-one-party-system-a-583454.html
And it's not Democratic, it's pro-business/plutocrat party. D vs. R is a distraction to keep the masses thinking there's democracy at work.