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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Gamle-ged on December 21, 2016, 10:15:00 AM
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... by 3 million votes outside of California and New York
Final vote tallies from the November 8 election show that Democrat Hillary Clinton out-polled President-elect Donald Trump by 2.8 million votes while losing the contest by a wide margin in the all-important Electoral College.
Her upper hand with voters, however, came down to performances in New York and California that were far stronger than necessary.
Clinton won California by 4.2 million and took New York by more than 1.6 million. The combined 5.8 million-vote advantage in just those two states was more than twice the size of her overall edge nationwide.
When the dust settled, she lost the rest of the country by 3 million votes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4055182/Final-tally-shows-Trump-lost-popular-vote-2-8-million-BEAT-Clinton-3-million-votes-outside-California-New-York.html
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I like how Gingrich explains how winning the popular vote isn't everything...
'This is football season. A team can have more yards and lose the game. What matters is how many points you put on the board. The Electoral College is the points,'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4055182/Final-tally-shows-Trump-lost-popular-vote-2-8-million-BEAT-Clinton-3-million-votes-outside-California-New-York.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4055182/Final-tally-shows-Trump-lost-popular-vote-2-8-million-BEAT-Clinton-3-million-votes-outside-California-New-York.html)
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Put differently, she did not win the popular vote amongst people who were not simply going to vote for the democratic candidate regardless of who it was.
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Trump won the popular vote in the states that mattered. DUmmies will never understand this
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Now, if terribly disappointed Progressives were to pack up and move to Kali and New York before the next presidential election (and STAY there), Republicans would own the White House for a century or two...