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Originally Posted by BIGJake111
Not many republicans would identify him as their candidate. He won primaries and the general due to votes from blue union workers.
Things will turn out fine though, checks and balances, we've had plenty of bad presidents before and we will have plenty of bad ones in the future.
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which is what always perplexes by people who think electing a President will lead to some some tectonic shift in the business world. For instance Trump paid for a large part of his campaign and people said that was a reason for voting for him, among others. The problem with that mentality is that the Executive is but one of 436 elected officials who decide what becomes law. The Executive no matter how wealthy isn't going to single-handedly pay for the re-election costs of his party's elected representatives every two years. And without those puppets of the special interests the Executive can't pass a thing. Even if Trump paid for his campaign without matching funds his party will continue to need every dime of special interest money.
For a single party to have control for more than two years is rare, more than four years even more peculiar. Sooner or later if we are ever to have effective governance the President is going to have to compromise with the opposition. Thus we should elect leaders that are not polarizing to the other half of the country. But gerrymandering of the districts and this electoral college system guarantees that we continue to elect hyper partisans. Ironically its that gerrymandering of the house districts that has made it now virtually impossible for the Republicans to pass a new healthcare bill, the Republicans in ultra red districts will not ever agree to go along with the rest of the party on any measure that takes one dime from senior citizen voters healthcare in favor of the middle aged and younger voter's heatlhcare spending. And the electoral college before long will become the most loathed institution by Republicans once just enough of the 12 largest states become reliably liberal as they control 270 no matter how high voter turn out is in the largely conservative remaining 38 states. A big problem once you realize that Republicans have not won a majority of all votes cast for President since 1988, those votes are largely coming from the 12 largest states while population gains have stalled in the remaining 38... meaning they'll have a yet smaller share of electors no matter how the state decides to apportion them (winner take all or by district).