Still haven't voted for Trump once so far, myself,
And I don't consider his actions something in his favor,
I just don't see it as treason, or something to burst into hysterics over, or pretend as though politicians don't frequently act underhanded in politics.
Again, I see it as a 'negative for Trumps character, but if the people and legislature choose to elect him next time, so be it.
- 1792 New York gubernatorial election – The Federalist Party candidate John Jay received more votes than the Democratic-Republican Party candidate George Clinton, but on technicalities, the votes of Otsego, Tioga and Clinton counties were rejected, giving George Clinton a slight majority in the official result.
- 1824 United States presidential election - John Quincy Adams became President after winning a contingent election in the House of Representatives due to the absence of an absolute majority in the Electoral College, despite the fact that Andrew Jackson (who would win the 1828 presidential election) won a plurality of the popular and electoral vote.
- Bleeding Kansas election, March 30, 1855 – An election to decide whether Kansas should be a free state or a slave state involved massive immigration to sway the vote and resulted in post-election violence, including a severe beating of a US Senator by a Congressman. The events it encompasses directly presaged the American Civil War. (See Kansas–Nebraska Act)
- 1876 United States presidential election – One of the most disputed and controversial presidential elections in American history between the Democratic Party's candidate Samuel J. Tilden and the Republican Party's candidate Rutherford B. Hayes was resolved by the Compromise of 1877, which allowed Hayes to become president in exchange for the end of Reconstruction and the withdrawal of all federal troops stationed in the South after the American Civil War. Although it is generally agreed that Tilden won a majority of the popular vote, the results of the electoral vote continue to be disputed.
- 1888 United States presidential election - The incumbent Democrat President Grover Cleveland won the popular vote, but Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote. Cleveland would be re-elected in 1892.
- 1891 New York State Senate election in Dutchess County
- 1948 United States Senate election in Texas - Lyndon B. Johnson won the Democratic primary over Coke R. Stevenson by only 87 votes. However, Johnson was accused of voter fraud in Duval County, as it had initially appeared Stevenson had won before 200 votes were allegedly found for Johnson.
- 1960 United States presidential election[24] - Some accounts claimed that mobster Sam Giancana and his Chicago crime syndicate played a role in Kennedy's victory in Illinois.[24]"
Not necessarily all true,
But would anyone have me believe that 'only these few are examples of politics in America, only what I see and hear?
It's the accepted standard of politics, though exceptions exist,
Politicians wheel and deal, make backroom agreements,
Look for technicalities and loopholes,
Appeal to the public, stoking their passions and beliefs.
I 'don't see it as a boon or something I like,
But the Left acts as though Trump is some exceptional dread, as though he's the next Hitler,
'Might be he would, if he easily had the power and context,
But he doesn't and he won't.
Plenty of Democrats would take our guns, force their views into our schools and indoctrinate with their views, imprison people for not respecting transgender athletes or thinking -
Bah, point being, it's not always a matter of what a person is themselves, but what they 'are in conjuncture with the system,
Even I'd likely be a terrible person, if given too much power.