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Your candidate got more of the popular vote? Irrelevant.
WaPoo ^ | 11-9-16 | Johnathan Adler

Posted on 11/09/2016 3:43:18 PM PST by smokingfrog

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To: bobsunshine

Trump has 306 EVs, unless New Hampshire recounts.


41 posted on 11/09/2016 5:52:27 PM PST by goldbux (When you're odd the odds are with you.)
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This is only because of asinine states like California.

Trump got 200,000 less votes than leisure suit Satan, ehem..., Hitlery.

In carrying insane California with all its illegal immigrant voters and what not, Hitlery got 2.5 MILLION more votes than Trump.

A 2.5 MILLION vote margin of victory in one crazy state is enough to slaughter the popular vote nation wide.

Just wait a few more decades and all the conservatives have left and instead of California getting 62% votes for Dem candidates it will be 98%. Won’t they be howling to end the brilliant Electoral College then.

LOL. Burn in hell my fellow Californians. Well, you evil ones know who you are. I can’t wait to retire and leave this opressive commie bastion from hell and never look back. May the devastating 8.0 earthquake come swiftly after I am gone.


42 posted on 11/09/2016 5:58:02 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (News of the future: Attorney General Rudy Giuliani convicts felon Hillary Clinton on all counts.)
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To: smokingfrog

Cliffs notes: Hillary got 2.5 million more California votes than Trump.

3.0 million CA votes for Trump.

5.5 million CA votes for Hitlery.

California is a one party commie lib Democrat state. Stick a fork in her.


43 posted on 11/09/2016 5:59:50 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (News of the future: Attorney General Rudy Giuliani convicts felon Hillary Clinton on all counts.)
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To: smokingfrog
Donald Trump — like several previous Republican presidential candidates — prevailed in the electoral college without winning the popular vote.

The following United States presidential elections are the elections in which the candidate who became President received neither a plurality or majority of the popular vote. This has occurred on five occasions.


44 posted on 11/09/2016 6:02:19 PM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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But,

Although around 30 of the 50 states have passed laws that mean their electors must vote according to the popular vote in their state – the punishment for not doing so is can merely be a fine. This means they could potentially defy the electorate's choice. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/electoral-college-how-does-it-work-us-election-day-2016-states-votes-donald-trump-hilalry-clinton-a7404086.html

45 posted on 11/09/2016 6:18:53 PM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

They say America is divided, but California sure isn’t. They’re all in for the socialist agenda.


46 posted on 11/09/2016 6:22:07 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

California is going through the same process as when a city turns into a ghetto. It gets infiltrated and then they start to come in greater numbers. When the middle class are tired of the crime and paying for the lazy slackers, they leave. Pretty soon there are no middle class tax payers left and all you have remaining are the criminals and slackers.

Instant ghetto.

But with California the infiltration is liberals and un-assimilating immigrants. The middle class is fleeing California for lower tax, lower cost states and safer towns, leaving the liberal whack jobs holding an ever greater proportion of the population.

This is accelerating. You look at southern california like Orange County OC was very Republican. Now it is completely liberal because of middle class flight. They have abandoned the county to the immigrants and commie lib slackers.

The nice thing about this for us — because of the brilliance of the Founders with the Electoral College — is that when future Californians vote 95% for liberal democrats and win by 10 million vote margins, it won’t matter. They will still only have the same number of electoral votes based on relative population.

All 25 million adult Californians could vote for Hillary and it wouldn’t matter, thanks to the wisdom of the Founders not allowing a popular vote to elect nation wide offices.

California is doomed. When it becomes so destitute/unsafe that Hollywood and Silicon Valley relocate to other states, that will be the end of business and tax money in California. It will just become Michagan west coast.


47 posted on 11/09/2016 6:36:09 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (News of the future: Attorney General Rudy Giuliani convicts felon Hillary Clinton on all counts.)
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To: smokingfrog

The popular vote this time is pretty much a statistical tie anyway.


48 posted on 11/09/2016 7:44:05 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: smokingfrog

bkmk


49 posted on 11/11/2016 11:43:56 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44 (If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.)
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