<div dir="auto">John did you forget that that the current POTUS won the plurality in 2024?  Why did that happen please?  s</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 8, 2026, 8:56 AM  <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_6026020228174334079WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Trump suggests letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 11:18<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">> </span></i></span><span class="m_6026020228174334079m-6046006903646372628gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">But his approval ratings were just average…</span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">So… how… did… the opposition party manage to lose?</span></i><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">>…Oh that's easy, because of our criminally idiotic electoral college system….<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Criminally?  The constitution defines criminal.  It mandates the electoral college system.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">>… Donald ran for president 3 times but he never got a majority of the popular votes in <u>ANY</u> of them, and he only got a plurality of the votes once.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> </span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">OK, so why did the opposition party manage to lose a majority of the states?  Think carefully John.<u></u><u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_6026020228174334079gmaildefault"><b><span st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