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It's Official: Clinton's Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California
Outside California, Hillary Clinton lost the popular vote by 1.4 million to Donald Trump. (ZUMAPRESS.com/Newscom)
Outside California, Hillary Clinton lost the popular vote by 1.4 million to Donald Trump. (ZUMAPRESS.com/Newscom)
JOHN MERLINE12/16/2016
Democrats who are having trouble getting out of the first stage of grief — denial — aren't being helped by the fact that, now that all the votes are counted, Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote has topped 2.8 million, giving her a 48% share of the vote compared with Trumps 46%.
To those unschooled in how the United States selects presidents, this seems totally unfair. But look more closely at the numbers and you see that Clinton's advantage all but disappears.
As we noted in this space earlier, while Clinton's overall margin looks large and impressive, it is due to Clinton's huge margin of victory in one state — California — where she got a whopping 4.3 million more votes than Trump.
California is the only state, in fact, where Clinton's margin of victory was bigger than President Obama's in 2012 — 61.5% vs. Obama's 60%.
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College — which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections. http://www.investors.com/politics/c...pular-vote-win-came-entirely-from-california/
California’s creepy weepy lefties need to come out of their quiet place set aside their coloring books secede from the union and appoint Hillary Rotten Clinton Queen for life and live in a socialist La-La land for ever after.
The above popular vote observation is WHY we have the Electoral College. America needs California selecting its Presidents like America needs a socialist lunatic in the White House.
Outside California, Hillary Clinton lost the popular vote by 1.4 million to Donald Trump. (ZUMAPRESS.com/Newscom)
Outside California, Hillary Clinton lost the popular vote by 1.4 million to Donald Trump. (ZUMAPRESS.com/Newscom)
JOHN MERLINE12/16/2016
Democrats who are having trouble getting out of the first stage of grief — denial — aren't being helped by the fact that, now that all the votes are counted, Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote has topped 2.8 million, giving her a 48% share of the vote compared with Trumps 46%.
To those unschooled in how the United States selects presidents, this seems totally unfair. But look more closely at the numbers and you see that Clinton's advantage all but disappears.
As we noted in this space earlier, while Clinton's overall margin looks large and impressive, it is due to Clinton's huge margin of victory in one state — California — where she got a whopping 4.3 million more votes than Trump.
California is the only state, in fact, where Clinton's margin of victory was bigger than President Obama's in 2012 — 61.5% vs. Obama's 60%.
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College — which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections. http://www.investors.com/politics/c...pular-vote-win-came-entirely-from-california/
California’s creepy weepy lefties need to come out of their quiet place set aside their coloring books secede from the union and appoint Hillary Rotten Clinton Queen for life and live in a socialist La-La land for ever after.
The above popular vote observation is WHY we have the Electoral College. America needs California selecting its Presidents like America needs a socialist lunatic in the White House.
