Jimmy_041 wrote:bulldogproud wrote:Zartan wrote:I'm thinking Trump will be fine as a President.. sometimes i think the media just love to beat up on people and paint a negative picture - i thought he would be a disaster at first, especially when you hear/see snippets of comments that the media chooses to play, but i sat and watched the debates in full yesterday and it's not that i like Trump so much as Hilary put me off.. reckon she's a fair snake in the grass..
Zartan, by chance would you happen to be a white anglo-saxon/European male, aged over 40, and not of a minority religion? In the debates, Trump did enough to infuriate anyone who belonged to any other group.
We have to be quick not to condemn US citizens too quickly though. Trump was voted for by less than 19% of the US population. Over 81% of Americans did not vote for him. This is why compulsory voting really needs to occur in all societies.
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55% of eligible voting citizens voted bp
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.cnn ... ent=safariCompulsory voting is an infringement of people's rights in the land of the free. They have talked about it before and there was a massive backlash
Not every society is a nanny state like Australia
Re the voting numbers, correct, Jimmy.
26.3% of eligible voters actually voted for Trump. As stated, this represents less than 19% of the total US population (yes, I know that I included those under voting age, so that I could make the figures look even more startling). However, it is a fact that 73.7% of eligible voters did not vote for Trump (over 81% of the total US population). Thanks for pretty much reinforcing my point, Jimmy.
I used to think that compulsory voting was, indeed, a strange thing to have in a democracy. However, when a president can be elected (in what is virtually a two-horse race) by 1/4 of the population, it is worrying, at least in my eyes. This is of course compounded by the fact that it is first-past-the-post voting, rather than preferential as we have in Australia. At least in Australia, we can be pretty confident that somewhere close to 50% or more have preferred the elected candidate above the unsuccessful ones.
This election saw the lowest turnout of voters in two decades. I believe that many of the Democrat 'team' became complacent when Hillary was always 6 to 12 points ahead in polling and did not put enough effort into securing the attendance of potential voters at the polling booth. When the latter query re 'email investigation' hit the headlines, it was too late to address this. Under compulsory voting, this would not have mattered. Unfortunately, under a non-compulsory system, it makes a huge difference, possibly costing this election.
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2016 10:44 am
, but thought I would just leave it anyway.
