Posted on 12/09/2016 7:37:54 PM PST by Steelfish
Clinton Won As Many Votes As Obama In 2012 — Just Not In The States Where She Needed Them Most
By David Lauter
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by at least 2.7 million, according to a final tally. The result marked the biggest gap between the popular vote and the electoral college in almost 150 years
The final results of the 2016 presidential election look like this: Hillary Clinton got roughly the same number of votes that President Obama received four years ago en route to his reelection, but she nonetheless lost the presidency to Donald Trump, who came in at least 2.7 million votes behind her.
That’s a highly unusual outcome — the biggest gap between the popular vote and the electoral college in almost a century and a half. Only now, with almost all the nation’s ballots counted, have analysts begun to flesh out what led to that result and what implications it has for the nation’s deep political divisions.
Start with California, where Clinton beat Trump by almost 2 to 1, amassing a margin of more than 4.2 million votes. That’s a victory more impressive even than Obama’s in 2012, and it included a win in Orange County, which had sided with the Republican in every presidential election back to 1936.
But Clinton’s huge majority in the nation’s largest state was also part of her key weakness — a base of support too concentrated in the big, urban areas of the northeast and the West Coast.
A candidate gets all of a state’s electoral votes whether she wins by four or 4 million, so in the national picture, the huge size of Clinton’s majority in California, as well as a similarly lopsided margin in New York, did her no good. Clinton piled up similarly ......................................................
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Trump beat Minion in PA by close to 300,000 votes. In five blue states, Trump beat Minion’s 2012 numbers huge.
She lost.
.... Well ..... My grand daddy used to say .... “You don’t bring your Checkers to a Chess Match.”
Larry,
For reference.
JJ
David’s swinging at a pile of glue at this point.
She lost bigley.
Well duh genius!
They thought the election of Her Heinous was in the bag.
So what? It’s meaningless. She was crushed.
Hillary had nearly 9 million votes in California, I’d bet a $100 that close to 2.5 million were illegals.
Trump won the popular vote in 49 states.
The idea is to get at least 270 electoral votes. If the popular vote was the goal Trump would have changed his campaign strategy.
Yeah, and 5-10% of them were fraudulent...
The solution is clear...expel California from the union.Everyone wins.The filthy pigs populating California will be able to mold their very own heaven on earth and the remaining 49 states,well....
I imagine a 100,000 person Trump rally at the Rose Bowl.
All I can say is thank God she lost. We sure didn’t need a continuation of that garbage being dished out by the current administration, most positions staffed by party hacks, mentally challenged individuals and many of them corrupt to the core. I have a strange feeling that there must have been some divine intervention for Trump to win, as someone OUT THERE felt sorry to watch this country under a corrupt socialistic leadership go down the drain.
no...she got the most popular votes. she did not win the popular vote. - 70,871,828 voted against her.
Subtract 3.7 million ILLEGAL ALIEN votes in California and she loses the majority the entire election!!!!
You would still have 50, if you would just vote for the STATE OF JEFFERSON.
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