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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, many of us voted with an understanding of the electoral college and chose to vote strategically.

I would never have voted for Hillary, but I live in DC, so a vote for Trump would have been "wasted."  Instead, I voted for Johnson with the hope that he'd get 5% of the popular vote and secure $10 million for the Libertarian party in the next cycle.  I'd like to have three viable candidates to choose from in the future.

Had I known that the election would be decided by popular vote rather then electoral college, I would have voted for Trump.

I am not alone.  3.3% of votes cast were cast for Johnson and 1.0% were cast for Stein, while Clinton is ahead by only 0.5:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/nov/08/us-election-2016-results-live-clinton-trump?view=map&type=presidential

Many, if not most, of the 4.3% of the voters who voted 3rd party did so because they understood the rules of electoral college.  Had those voters known that the electoral college result would be ignored, they would probably have voted for a major party candidate, and many more would have voted for Trump than for Clinton since 3rd party voters are usually dissatisfied with the incumbent party..

Furthermore, we have not even considered the people who didn't bother to vote at all in solid red or solid blue states because they knew that their vote would not change the outcome in the electoral college.  You might be able to argue that since they didn't bother to show up, they can't complain, but that would be a hard sell since you're changing the rules.

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Apparently, most of the current "protestors" never even voted. How shocking!![/quote]

Where on Earth did you get this non-fact from?  A Facebook meme?  [/quote]

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