Majority for dummies

Majority for dummies

by digby

Ted Nugent at Trump rally: "I've gotcher blue state right here!"

I always thought it was funny that the Supreme Court relied on an argument that counting certain votes would dilute the votes of others in Bush vs Gore. Because, you know, Al Gore won the popular vote. And 16 years later we have another Democrat winning the popular vote and losing the electoral college.

And then there's this:

The White House may not be the only institution in Washington that Democrats lost on Tuesday despite getting more votes than Republicans.

It turns out that Democrats also got more votes for the U.S. Senate than Republicans, and yet Republicans maintained their majority on Capitol Hill.

In results that are still preliminary, 45.2 million Americans cast a vote for a Democratic Senate candidate, while 39.3 million Americans voted for a Republican.

The problem for Democrats is that, much like the Electoral College, the number of votes matters less than where those votes are cast.

Real American votes are just a little bit more valuable ...

It's a mighty strange democracy we've got these days.

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