you are wrong about california. the wasted votes from CA would be so much more useful for Democrats than the 55 electoral votes. we should be happy to yield the 55 EC votes, only that and nothing else.
In a few states like CA NY and IL Hillary ran up her vote margin so much that she got that multimillion vote margin in the popular vote. The strong Trump states were nowhere as close in running up their votes for Trump.
For all intents and purposes, the entirety of Hillary’s popular vote margin was NYC and coastal California.
You might very well be right although my point is much much much larger than CA. I suppose what I’m thinking is that Trump didn’t even campaign in some states or cities. Had the strategy been different and he attacked NY City like a laser for 10 months, it would have been a brand new ball game with a brand new strategy and a different popular vote. I don’t really know how many people he could have swayed in NY City or LA had he campaigned there (10 months like a laser). But the popular vote numbers aren’t static, which reflects a miscalculation that a lot of Dems are making. The bottom line is that when a person acknowledges that the numbers are dynamic and the game and the strategies would change, the only thing we know for sure is that the numbers would be far different. But I’ll admit I can’t say for sure the Dems wouldn’t win. The good thing is that we’ll never have to find out because the electoral college, in all its beauty, is here to stay!