[Karl Spooner]

Yeah, Trump won 91 of 102 counties in Illinois. Most from 60 to 80 percent.

[entropy12]

Those 91 counties have far fewer people living in them than the other 11 counties. The 3 counties making up Metropolitan Chicago is more than half of Illinois population.

[EDINVA]

Counties don’t mean squat. It’s population. That is true through most states. Densely populated cities usually have a population equal to the rest of the state combined.

As an example, one “county” in NYC (Kings County, better known as Brooklyn) has 2.592 million residents. It’s 69.5 miles in land area. Manhattan is 22.8 miles in land area and is home to 1.626 million residents. All 5 boroughs (or counties) in NYC alone make up 9.825 million people (leaving aside the several suburban counties). The entire population of New York State is 19.75 million.

[Dr. Sivana]

Yeah, Trump won 91 of 102 counties in Illinois.

Not a useful comparison. Cook County, Illinois has 5,000,000 people. Ogle County, Illinois (where I lived) has more like 50,000.

[achilles2000]

Chicago is always the source of massive fraud. I’m sure Emmanuel is in the tradition of Richard Daly, who manufactured the votes to give the state to Kennedy in 1960

[Dave W]

So? So? and So? Even the uneducated know that Cook County has tons more voters than the rural counties. It is where people live, not the number of counties.

That is why Trump and Bush lost the popular vote. Tons of voters in California, New York and Illinois and wide margins of victory for Clinton, but North Dakota and South Dakota are good wins for Trump, but not many voters. We all understand.