Ha ha… simple math goes both ways.
A third loves trump, a third hates trump, ok, we got the left and the right out of the way, what are we left with .. the middle. Funny how you assume that the middle is in full agreement with the right wing zealots…
Now, reality check. Trump won the election fair and square, there is no contest to that. All this milarky about the russians interfering with the election is bullshit, but the dems have nothing else to pin it on (like your candidate was disliked by so many Americans ? (46%!).
Trump won by a significant margin in the electoral college, the smart way to campaign. The electoral college was instantiated to prevent mob rule and allow all states a fair vote in the process, not just the population dense coastal cities.
Hillary won the popular vote, meaning she had more social security numbers voting for her than for Trump, but these individuals were heaped together into dense population regions, hence all their popular votes went to the same electoral college votes.
If you check the election results”
Trump win 306 electoral votes, hillary won 232. A fairly large margin. Hilary had 43% of the electoral votes, Trump had 57%. A 14% margin!
Now for the popular vote. In a nation with 323 million people, only 128 million actually voted (128,838,341). Of those votes hillary won 48.5%, or ~65.8 million, and Trump won 46.4% for ~63 million. So, Trump lost the popular vote by 2,868,691 votes, but they were all collected in established blue cities, so they all counted towards the same electoral votes that were a lock anyway.
Hmmm. 46.4% of the votes went for Trump, that is a large percentage, more than 30%. His loss was only by 2.1% of the popular vote — a very skinny margin.
Now, you might want to argue Trump’s current approval rating, yup, there is your 36.9% (your third). But let’s be real, these are polls, not actual verifiable statistics. It depends on who is doing the poll, what are the questions asked.
Why is Trump losing ground on his popularity? Trump has failed to rally the troops and deliver on his campaign promises, which were a bit far fetched to begin with, but most presidents fail to deliver all of their promises. Trump is sticking his ‘thumbs’ in his mouth (twitter) far too often, but the disruption to both the media and the powers that be (and who want to hold onto their power) is hilarious to watch. It’s a circus, its chaos, its what some of us wanted because something had to change, that was why he won and not Hillary. People want change.
Trump has failed to realize that being president does not make you the boss, only the leader of a large complex system, more of a salesman than a chairman of the board— you still have to sell your agenda and curry favors and votes out of the true power — congress. Trump has squandered his political capital on ego, agreed. This is hurting his ability to “lead”.
Now, go vote for the “convention of states” so we can change the rules on congress to drain the swamp and corral the corruption.
