Is the popular vote officially tabulated and reported ? Headlines here and elsewhere, some with clinton winning and a few saying trump won. I know it doesn’t matter anyhow but why are there so many conflicting stories on the issue ?
yeah I thought the numbers were 62.9 to 62.2 with Trump winning? What gives?
They’re still counting votes. California won’t start on their mail-in ballots until tomorrow (today was the deadline to receive them - must be postmarked by Election Day).
It is not settled yet. Latest i see (CNN) is Clinton 61,324,576 and Trump at 60,526,852, a 797,724.00 difference.
However, the last count i saw Gary Johnson received 4,042,291, or 3.2 percent of the total vote, and . Jill Stein's total popular votes were approximately 1,200,000 as of Wednesday afternoon. Thus if most of Johnson's votes went to Trump and (if even) half of Stein's went to Clinton (as some say they would) then that would be more than Clinton's current 700,000 popular vote victory and have given Trump the popular vote victory.
And most other opinions i have read indicate that Johnson voters would have chosen Trump if their candidate was not running.
Polls show Gary Johnson taking more support from Clinton, not Trump http://hotair.com/archives/2016/08/02/polls-show-gary-johnson-taking-more-support-from-clinton-not-trump/
So for what it is worth, which is not much, this is an argument against the "most American wanted Clinton for President" assertion.