Considering the potential image disaster and other repercussions of changing a candidate in this way, and the impression it would give of internal democracy, do you think any other candidate has a chance of winning the White House in the elections?

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

the impression it would give of internal democracy

Eight years ago trump won the presidency, despite most people voting for Hillary. How can anything give a worse impression of democracy then the winner getting fewer votes then the loser?

Edit: unless you're talking about the democracy within the democratic party, not within the US. In that case just pretend I'm going on a nice little side tangent about US democracy.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bush II also lost the popular vote iirc

[–] Nimue@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Yep, it's happened five times (1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016).

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