“There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
Trump won 3,084 of them.
Clinton won 57.
There are 62 counties in New York State.
Trump won 46 of them.
Clinton won 16.
Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.
In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond)
Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.
These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles.
The United States is comprised of 3, 797,000 square miles.
When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election.
Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc) don’t and shouldn’t speak for the rest of our country.”
BFL
There are 25 counties in Maryland, and Trump won 19 of them.
There are three counties in Hoyer’s District, and he lost two of them.
I don’t have the stats but when you start throwing in the state governships and state congressional seats you get lopsided results similar to the measures you describe. If the Democrats are the “majority” voice then the state demographics would also favor the Dems. But reality seems to suggest otherwise.
“Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc) don’t and shouldn’t speak for the rest of our country.””
The diminution of the big cities hold on our Republic should start with changing how the census data is used to create legislative districts. the census counts everyone irrespective of citizenship. Then those totals are utilized to create the “one man, one vote” districts. Since the census has tons of illegals counted in these cities, the cities get more districts, a hence more political clout. “They” tried to undo this travesty in Los Angeles County not long ago and “they” were blocked by liberal judges. Trump needs to fix this. LA would have a whole lot less power in both the State and the Federal governments if the 3 million or so illegals that currently live there were excluded from the census data.
BFLR