2016 Presidential debate (9/26/2016)

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Also dangerous unless we get rid of the Electoral College. If a third party candidate got enough votes in the Electoral College, it sets up a scenario where no one gets to 270 electoral votes. That means the House of Representatives decides who the president is.

Now, let's say Gary Johnson and/or Jill Stein both got enough votes in the electoral college to prevent Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump from reaching 270.

Now let's say in that scenario that Hillary Clinton got the most amount of votes in the electoral college. 250 votes, perhaps. That means more people/states voted for Clinton than voted for any other candidate.

The House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans. Do you really think they're going to vote for Hillary, the person who got more votes?

Hillary gets the most votes. Donald becomes president.

The electoral college has gotta go if you want to be serious about third parties.

I feel stupid for not knowing that would happen in that case, and at the same time extraordinarily alarmed.

The product of the Founding Father's good intentions for helping the uneducated electorate vote, retained by political apathy in the masses. Do we really not care enough as a people to let this sort of anti-democratic institution slide in the modern day? Jeez.
 

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I feel stupid for not knowing that would happen in that case, and at the same time extraordinarily alarmed.

The product of the Founding Father's good intentions for helping the uneducated electorate vote, retained by political apathy in the masses. Do we really not care enough as a people to let this sort of anti-democratic institution slide in the modern day? Jeez.
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General consensus from my own observations and those of others and various media outlets:


Trump started out rocky (during the about 7 mins that the debate remained civil), and then obliterated Clinton for the first 30-45 mins with well said and passionate rebuttals and statements, while Clinton aimlessly droned and bored the audience. Then he completely fell off for the second half when he failed to offer satisfying responses to the various questions concerning his tax returns and his other questionable comments in the past, missing many an opportunity in the process to turn the attention back to his opponent and her own. It was odd. For the first time in my life I watched Trump pulling punches while Clinton went all out. And then he said something dumb. Again. Part of this pattern in the debate probably had to do with the fact that he was not as well prepared as Clinton, a mistake he stated he won't make again.

In the terms of a train wreck, Trump did fairly well for a while. For once he looked mildly presidential. His cockiness got the better of him however. He just hadn't prepared to give himself the stamina (irony is ironic) to keep up his energy and wit throughout the whole thing. He let himself get baited way to much, and got reduced to a ranting mess near the end. This is why you prepare for debates Donald. So you don't look like an idiot when your opponent throws you curveballs. You need all the help you can get in that department, anyway dude.
 

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Honestly it goes like this first 30 or so minutes trump was actually pushing Hillary and doing good, whether I agree with him is pointless but he was on the war path, than like the mighty Roman empire he went defensive and never came back, like as soon as his taxes, miss universe, and Iraq questions hit him he just lost it all. Leaving the last hour to Hillary. Sure she was average at least alright, but Trump went from good to out right stupid in the end, now Hillary didn't out right win but it is clear Trump wasn't all there and after everything when he could have plenty of stuff to talk about he starts this half ass conspiracy on the producers giving him a bad mic. An continue the stupid discussion about the miss universe point that Hillary brought up. Watch fox and friends

Like honestly he could have done great and like a toddler who just discovered walking he landed flat on his face cause he just couldn't handle it anymore. I am no trump fan but honestly he could have do so well yet he just ended up looking idiotic.


BUUUUUUTTTTTT

Now I cant believe I have to say this at least he did it in the end of the debate when like half the people already left and was no longer listening or watching, so that should soften the blow he will get. But now we just got to see if the polls will change much because if they do change, Hillary might just win this. Just got to wait and see.
 

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What did you guys think?

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That we probably have the two worst candidates since the Gilded Age.​
 

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That we probably have the two worst candidates since the Gilded Age.​

Hey.

Don't go throwing that symbol of the Alt Right Neo-Nazi Chinese Fascist movement around my thread.

/sarcasm
 
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