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More Americans voted for right leaning presidential candidates than left leaning ones in 2016.


A streamlined repost since I'm still seeing Democrats here repeat myths about the so called "popular vote". Michael Moore and others have even said "a majority" of Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, which shows he sucks at math as she only got 48% of the vote.

Out of the top six finishers four were right leaning. Trump, Johnson (Libertarian, former Republican gov. of NM), McMullen (conservative Ind. out of Utah, lifelong Republican), and Castle (Constitution Party, very conservative) combined for 68,409,117 votes.

Clinton and Jill Stein (Green Party) combined for 67,310,847 votes. The right already has a +1,098,270 vote advantage just among the top six. There are several other conservative and leftist vote getters, but after Castle there's such a huge drop off that even combined they couldn't put much dent in the gap.

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2016&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0

So more Americans voted either for Trump or for people further to the right than for left wingers. They don't agree on everything but the right leaners do agree on repealing Obamacare, cutting taxes, deregulating, appointing constitutionalist judges, etc..

Liberalism lost even on Democrats' own insipid "popular vote" terms.





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I think it is a conspiracy. There are more liberals being killed each day than Conservatives. This is why Trump won. When Obama was president, there were more Liberals than Conservatives.

The less gun regulation, the more Conservatives will win elections.

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say wha?

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All that proves is that there's a lot of stupid, selfish American voters.

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Nope. Studies show conservatives volunteer and give more to charity than liberals do. In particular people who disagree with the notion that government should primarily take care of poor people give more to charity than those who favor bigger government.

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I wonder how those statistics stack up if all the oligarchs who give to "charities" but are really just funding their alt-right PAC non-profits are discounted? Probably a lot less afterwards.

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Wrong again, and the giving cuts across income levels. We're talking about percentage of income here.

"Arthur Brooks, the author of "Who Really Cares," says that "when you look at the data, it turns out the conservatives give about 30 percent more."...

And he says the differences in giving goes beyond money, pointing out that conservatives are 18 percent more likely to donate blood. He says this difference is not about politics, but about the different way conservatives and liberals view government.

"You find that people who believe it's the government's job to make incomes more equal, are far less likely to give their money away," Brooks says. In fact, people who disagree with the statement, "The government has a basic responsibility to take care of the people who can't take care of themselves," are 27 percent more likely to give to charity....

...the single biggest predictor of whether someone will be charitable is their religious participation.

Religious people are more likely to give to charity, and when they give, they give more money: four times as much. And Arthur Brooks told me that giving goes beyond their own religious organization:

"Actually, the truth is that they're giving to more than their churches," he says. "The religious Americans are more likely to give to every kind of cause and charity, including explicitly non-religious charities.""


http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682730&page=1

http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/23/surprise-conservatives-are-more-generous-than-liberals/

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I'm sure Mr. Brooks is good at finding the sort of results he chooses to find.

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Yeah, he's employed by the American Enterprise Institute, another one of those alt-right "think" tanks that are just a front for mega-rich interests who want low taxes, less government, less oversight, etc., etc. Oligarchy Central Command, in other words.

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Evidently you're good at ignoring results you don't like, [email protected]. If you had read the research before dismissing it you'd know Brooks' work was based on government surveys, and in your own research you probably would have picked up on the fact that it had been verified by others, including some left wingers. Certainly no one has refuted it or the other studies showing the same consistent results over the years (Americans are also by far the most charitable people on earth, btw), or else you would have been buried in liberal blogs and articles telling you so, instead of them mostly just trying to ignore said research to minimize how many leftist bubble dwellers know about it.

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An excellent post, krl. You are obviously an intelligent person.



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Giving this a bump since there are some newer posters here still running with the debunked "popular vote" myth.

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