It's clear where this debate is going. But to take us back to where we started, I would suggest that it's highly unlikely that a Clinton-administration FCC would be preparing to repeal the Title II protections for broadband. Not that I don't care about plenty of other issues, but the difference on this one seems clear.

Agreed. The OP was all over the map, but as far as NN, it's very unlikely that Clinton FCC would have repealed it.

Actually, they didn't get half the votes. And the tribalism that's rampant in our politics today means that many voters are making choices based on lies and misinformation.

I'm not above falling victim to bad sources, confirmation bias, or other foibles of human knowledge, but I try to be aware of that and guard against it. Not perfectly, I'm sure, but that imperfection doesn't mean that we all have an equal grounding in the truth.

This downward spiral into a crisis of epistemology ("who can really know anything for sure? there are so many lies out there! there is no way to discern truth!") is a fundamental strategy of authoritarian regimes (Russia), and it's being put to good use in this country.

EDIT: typo

I think it's a fundamental strategy of Russia to try to do that to us. I think they're being fairly effective, too.

Note well: I am not saying that this is all Russia's fault. But I think that there is evidence that they're trying to do exactly this to us.

As a non-american, both side seem to be equally part of "they". H. Clinton is only the "other side" of Trump because the american politic system is de facto bipartite. Which easily answer one's wonder: "they" did not only get half the vote, "they" got all of them.

To the question "how did they got the vote to be finalist", I'm afraid I don't have a better answer that the one that's repeated and repeated so much that it's becoming a gimmick: money, media, fear and stupidity