>>>>Maybe because its anointed a person who doesn't remotely reflect the majority of voters. You can't dodge this one. Trumps mandate is as solid as a Viennetta. Your MSM deplorables are the voice of the majority.
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>>At the end of a game of Rugby, there is a score. Sometimes the score doesn't accurately match playing prowess- e.g. the team with 80% possession still can lose if the other side has an ace kicker.
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>>If the team with 80% possession loses, you can congratulate them for playing well. But you cannot invent a new scoring system and pretend that possession can trump the final score.
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>>These are the effects of rules agreed in advance by all the players and teams. It's terrible sportspersonship to lose and then try to change the rules to concoct a win for yourself. That's a recipe for anarchy if everybody else began being such a bad sport.
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>>What cannot be dodged, is that Trump won according to the rules agreed by both candidates and teams in advance. Now he has mandate- by definition. And it cannot be dodged that some very poor sports are trying to retrofit alternative sets of rules to attack the winner- and claiming that it's done to protect the game of Rugby from the evil winning team.
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>Yes. Here's a dramatic - and tragic example.
>http://www.augusta.com/masters/story/history/1968-de-vicenzo-signs-wrong-score-goalby-wins-masters
>Roberto didn't even make the error - his playing partner, Tommy Aaron did, but Roberto signed the erroneous card and was disqualified.
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>I was watching and was crushed. I had been pulling for Roberto all the way.
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>Nobody came out a winner.
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>Bob Goalby - who played a brilliant tournament and deserved a shot at a playoff- will forever have an asterisk next to his name.
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>But those are the rules of the game and Roberto accepted the outcome graciously.
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>Incidentally, Trump got more votes- a lot more- than Bill Clinton did in 1992- hmmmm.

All this focus on the popular vote, then Russians, then the electors.. it all reminds me of something I read recently - I wish I remembered where.
Paraphrasing:

* "The press is not really very good at telling you what to think."
* "However, the press IS very good at telling you what to think about"

The point being, if you focus the public's attention on things that support your viewpoint you can slowly turn public opinion.