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Please remind people you encounter who say that Clinton won the popular vote that this is not true. Clinton DID NOT win the majority of the vote. The majority voted for Trump or a 3rd party candidate. She lost by 3.21 million votes overall. 51.2% of voters DID NOT VOTE FOR CLINTON. They voted for someone other than Clinton. So she did not win the popular vote.

As additional votes have been counted in the presidential election, especially on the West Coast, Hillary Clinton's national popular-vote lead over Donald Trump now exceeds 2 million votes, according to an ongoing tally by the Cook Political Report's David Wasserman. Hillary Clinton's vote total is 64,223,986 (48.1% of the vote), while Trump's is 62,206,395 (46.6%) - a difference of 2,017,591 votes (1.5%). To put that popular-vote margin into perspective, Al Gore's popular-vote lead over George W. Bush in 2000 - when Bush won the Electoral College - was 547,000 votes. Also noteworthy: Clinton's 64-plus million votes is nearing in on...