How will liberals react if Republicans win the 2008 electoral vote but Democrats win the popular vote?

Question

Will they riot?...Will they follow through will pre-election promises to leave the country? Will they say the election was stolen?

Answer 1

Same as always, say he cheated to get the presidency...yada yada

Answer 2

i'm conscious of the electoral college device and that i'm conscious of the historic certainty that some presidents are elected with out receiving the favored majority. The 2000 election court cases weren't frustrating the electoral college device. They have been attempting to be certain the winner interior the state of Florida, the place the voting actually got here right down to interior of a few ballots. and because the two applicants had adequate electoral votes that prevailing Florida could win the election, the area have been given quite nasty quite quickly. the communicate over ballots became no longer something new, its only that it became the 1st time it mattered. There are continually some ballots the place some thing is fishy, in step with probability somebody filled in a circle, then erased it, so there is a few controversy approximately who that man or woman voted for. those issues take place in each and every election, yet while its just some hundred ballots and the race is desperate by using one hundred,000 or extra, then it does not make national information. yet in Florida in 2000, that handful of questionable ballots became adequate to make the adaptation with who won the state, and the states electoral votes have been adequate to make the adaptation in who won the election. If Obama losses in electoral votes buts wins in ordinary votes, then Obama will concede and all people will agree that McCain is the rightful president. some human beings will question the reasoning for having the electoral college, and a few human beings will call for it to be abolished, yet that may not impression the consequence of the 2008 election.

Answer 3

As the 2000 election showed, it is not easy to win the electoral vote while losing the popular vote. In such a circumstance, there will be one or two states that are recount close.

If you saw a repeat of the results of the 2000 election, both parties are better prepared for post-election court fights than they were seven years ago. It will not be pretty and I am not sure what would happen when the electoral votes are counted in Congress.

The one thing that I can guarantee is that no Republican who gets elected by such a means in 2008 will get any honeymoon period with the new Congress. Democrats have learned from the current Administration that, when Republicans talk about bi-partisanship, they mean that Democrats should roll over and play dead. The 2010 and 2012 campaigns would begin immediately.

Answer 4

Anyone that understand the importance of the electorial college would never be angry that their candidate lost the electorial vote and won the popular vote. The electorial college is there to protect the rights of the smaller states and rural residents.

As for the 2000 election, the issue wasn't that Gore won the popular vote...it was because many saw what happened in Florida and thought it was a major debacle. There are still debates on who actually won the Florida vote, thus the election.

As a firm anti-Bush American, I can tell you that I believe most Republicans would be furious if any legit proof of Bush stealing the election came to light. No American wants to see the voting process corrupted.

EDIT: Plankshe...you have no idea what you are talking about. The electorial college was put into place to protect small states, not slave states.

Answer 5

What do you think they would say, if the republican candiate won the popular vote, but the democratic candiate won the electoral vote ?

I bet ya they sure wouldn't say, they stole the election,

or its not fair,

Or any thing else they said after the 2000 election.

If a republican wins in 2008,

I expect to hear the same line we heard in 2000 and 2004,

The republicans cheated !!!!!!!!!!

Ya notice, we didn't hear anything about cheating after the 2006 congressional elections.

Nothing about diebold after the 2006 congressional election either.

I wonder why ???

Answer 6

There is a greater chance of this planet being invaded by Martians than for the Republicans to win the Presidential Election.

So unless you believe in fairy tales, you better get used to the idea of a Democrat President and a Democrat Congress.

The Neocon era is almost over.

Answer 7

I don't plan to riot--why is that what you will do when Hillary wins?

As to some kind of "promise" to leave the country--cite a source please. I'm not going anywhere.

If there is again evidence that votes have been tampered with in various states, then yes I will say the election was stolen.

Answer 8

I don't think you will be able to steal another national election. The results for 2000 and the aftermath have left the nation and the global balance of power far worse off.
But it won't happen. The GOP bull dozer is out of gass.
There is no conservative/ evangelical / Republican movement any more - except for the South.
Check out what Sandra Day Oconner has to say about how much she regrets casting her vote for Bush - after years of seeing what they have done to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Answer 9

Not gonna happen. Ohio went overwhelmingly Democratic in the 06 election, and will stay that way in 08 because the people in that state are suffering from Republican trade deals.

Answer 10

They will say Republicans prevented people from voting. They will say that even if the Republican gets the popular vote, no matter the margin of victory.

Answer 11

I really doubt it would just be Democrats rioting considering how unpopular Bush is these days and considering how poorly the GOP candidates are doing.