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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid you ever think that the 2016 election might have been rigged?
Oh, excuse me, it's only a rigged election if a Republican doesn't win.
Kid Berwyn
(15,333 posts)Oh yeah. It was rigged.
Elessar Zappa
(14,193 posts)Russia certainly put on a thumb on the scale plus the standard GOP voter suppression tactics.
Irish_Dem
(49,125 posts)I call that a rigged election.
Elessar Zappa
(14,193 posts)that I dont believe votes were flipped.
CrispyQ
(36,668 posts)Unlike 2020 where millions & millions of illegal ballots were counted.
They don't even listen to themselves, at how ridiculous & stupid that sounds. Millions & millions of illegal ballots when in the past there have never been more than a handful of voter fraud incidents. But suddenly, when the most vulgar, unpopular president in modern times, who mishandled the biggest crisis in a century that cost hundreds of thousands of Americans their lives loses the election, they look for excuses. I will never look at the ones I know the same.
Irish_Dem
(49,125 posts)If Trump and the GOP could have done it they would.
CrispyQ
(36,668 posts)When the head of the FBI spoke, it validated all the bad stuff that had been circulating about HRC. I'll always hold him the most responsible for giving us Trump. Then he had the audacity to write that commentary about how Trump eats your soul. Fuck you, James Comey.
Irish_Dem
(49,125 posts)We know Trump and the GOP are ruthless sociopaths who will commit crimes.
But the FBI is paid by the US taxpayer to support the law and ethical behavior.
What Comey did was election interference which is a crime.
SupportSanity
(267 posts)we wouldn't be having this discussion.
bucolic_frolic
(43,729 posts)Those rural red counties. What button was he pushing? Were activists motivated by a billionaire's walking around money? Was the religious, business, inter-generational familial, ethnic buttons pushed? Rural areas have the same composition over many generations. Many cousins, extended families, in business forever, very intertwined, same doctors/bankers/lawyers/retailers forever. Did texting push them all to jump?
Has anyone really explained it? Was the vote secure? It remains quite an unplumbed anomaly.
mountain grammy
(26,717 posts)That we didnt storm the capitol. Stop the Steal indeed!
Fiendish Thingy
(15,758 posts)Russia and Cambridge Analytica succeeded in manipulating the votes of many poorly educated, low information voters. That, along with some strategic errors in the rust belt gave Trump a path to victory.
obnoxiousdrunk
(2,913 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,420 posts)But the media favored Trump and gave him a $Billion in free advertising. And Comey did his bidding too.
sarisataka
(19,113 posts)so no, I don't think it was rigged.
Happy Hoosier
(7,527 posts).... An electoral college which makes a Wyomin vote 4 times as powerful as a California vote, and signficant voter suppression laws certainly skewed the results.
The electoral system is skewed to favor rural, white voters.