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Real question that must be asked: (Original Post) cilla4progress May 2020 OP
Real answer: we didn't. lagomorph777 May 2020 #1
+1 n/t Lulu KC May 2020 #2
+1 n/t stillcool May 2020 #3
+1. Installed by Putin and protected by McConnell dalton99a May 2020 #4
Agree completely. cilla4progress May 2020 #5
+100 Spot on! abqtommy May 2020 #7
Partially by Democrats bickering and not getting behind our candidate. Lightening could strike again marble falls May 2020 #6
Two words: Fox News Initech May 2020 #8
I blame Mark Burnett for giving Chump the platform of "The Apprentice". Totally Tunsie May 2020 #9
This raises another question for me... pecosbob May 2020 #10

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
1. Real answer: we didn't.
Fri May 1, 2020, 01:05 PM
May 2020

A majority of voters voted for Trump's opponent. Putin installed Trump, in part by gaming our electoral college, which is the most serious weakness in our system.

cilla4progress

(24,733 posts)
5. Agree completely.
Fri May 1, 2020, 01:10 PM
May 2020

I believe votes were changed. It doesn't game out...1% or less in just those precincts need to win e college.

My only q is who knows, and when will it come out?

Initech

(100,076 posts)
8. Two words: Fox News
Fri May 1, 2020, 01:20 PM
May 2020

They're responsible for everything bad that's happened in the last 20 years. As Ned Flanders says "It's true! Watch Fox and be damned for all eternity!".

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
9. I blame Mark Burnett for giving Chump the platform of "The Apprentice".
Fri May 1, 2020, 02:44 PM
May 2020

He's the one who introduced Chump to the American public and made him a reality "star". If not for that, he would have been laughed off the stage.

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