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Runs or Hits ?

During the end of the baseball season I came across two interesting baseball box scores on the sports page:
Colo.  7  12  1
Atl.     6  13  0
and
Pit.     1   4   0
Cin.   0   5   0

For you non baseball fans, the initial number represents “runs”.
The second number represents “hits” and the third represents “errors”.
Now what if those in Cincinnati and Colorado said that they had won because they had more hits than Pittsburg and Atlanta respectively. Of course any knowledgeable fan would reply, “The rules state that the winner is the one with the most runs – not the most hits. You cannot change the criteria for winning after the game has been played. You are sore losers, Cincinnati and Atlanta fans.”
In baseball if hits were more important than runs, the strategy and the type of desired players would be different. One would retool his team to have more players that hit more singles and strike out less, and less players who hit home runs but strike out more, because in that scenario a single and a home run would count the same as each would be “one hit.”
Now does this tale have anything to do reality? Well again and again I am still hearing the now trite and quite tiresome excuse of “Hilary should be in the White House because she won the popular vote.”
To them I continue to reply, “Good for Hilary, but the popular vote is not how the game is decided. The popular vote is like “hits” in the above box scores. The team with the most runs wins the baseball game, and here the electoral college votes are the equivalent of “runs” in baseball. If hits and not runs were the deciding factor, then perhaps a different make-up of team would have been advantageous, and perhaps the games (and the campaign) would have been played differently.
Note to Democrats: Next time get a smarter candidate who understands the art of a successful campaign strategy tailored to winning the electoral college.

Trump ran a campaign based on the rules which were and still are that the higher electoral vote tally wins, and BTW, “shut up and stop whining!”

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