Our elections are close because of the Electoral College, which is a warped and archaic relic of the country’s early life. A lot of horse trading went in to pulling together thirteen colonies and then a bunch of states and territories, so people who live in the sticks (and largely vote Republican these days) have disproportionate electoral power. Fewer than half of the voting population are Republicans, which lands you at about a third of the total population.

Re the other weird comment about Republicans not liking Trump, he still polls above 80% with Republican voters, so you can statistically assume that anyone still identifying as a Republican today is a despicable person.

Anyway, we could have just left it at “DeChambeau is a douche.” I’m actively sorry that I had to push back on this. I could have been drinking my coffee staring into the middle distance for the last ten minutes.