and county-equivalents. How accurate I don't know. But it is an interesting presentation.
Not sure this would be representive of this current election but I bet it comes close.
Data from back in 2013
Posted on 11/16/2016 3:42:52 PM PST by PingPongChampion
Data from back in 2013
A federal or state act that violates the Constitution AS WRITTEN AND ORIGINALLY UNDERSTOOD AND INTENDED, is an unconstitutional act and should be rejected.
California is the liberals dream. Hispanics outnumber whites giving the democrat party permanent full control of an entire state. Lets see how well it fares.
Let it be the canary in the coalmine for the rest of us.
He’s already changed his mind on the electoral college. Probably, someone explained the purpose of it to him. Yesterday, he tweeted:
“If the election were based on total popular vote I would have campaigned in N.Y. Florida and California and won even bigger and more easily”
“The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!”
can you source your comment that 3 million illegals voted?
But still, elections usually come down to one or two large swing states. In the late 19th century, that was New York and Ohio. Politicians were happy to give Nevada and Wyoming a voice in the Electoral College, but most of the presidential and vice presidential candidates came from those two states (or Indiana and Illinois, which were alternatives to Ohio).
Lately, Florida and Ohio have been the key swing states. Maybe Michigan and Pennsylvania will join them or replace them. But if what we have now is a situation where California, New York and Illinois give the a national popular vote majority to candidates who still lose the election in the Electoral College, it's no surprise that there's agitation to change the system.
Results like this year's or 2000's aren't inevitable, though. If a party gets more popular votes and still loses the election, it usually finds a way to get its act together sooner or later.
Yet it was almost entirely due to the Bay Area and the Los Angeles region. Take those two areas away and California is, at best, a swing state - if not outright red. The most productive region of California (the Central Valley) went for Trump, as did the rural north.
Bttt.
Exactly ! Right on point !
This is also why Dingy Harry is pushing so hard for the elimination of the electoral college.
It will Deepen the Nation divide (!!) and accentuate regionalism .
Elimination of the electoral college is a divisive tool, just as is Dirty Harry divisive.
Bye-bye Harry ! Enjoy retirement with your Chinese solar energy friends.
Why is it that the Witch's popular vote lead seems to be going ever upward as time passes? Could it be that the media sources reporting this popular vote difference have been given their marching orders by the 'Rats again?
Voter fraud.
“The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play”
Very glad to see this statement.
maybe they are counting all the California absentee ballots this time
though I though they usually did not do so when the margin of victory for one candidate was insurmountable
The late coming votes are mostly from Cali and WA State, and provisional ballots nationwide
Those are overwhelming rat, a lot of them fraud YES but the numbers, for whatever they are worth, are being accurately reported.
4 Million left to count.
California is disgusting.
Fun fact, Shillery won a majority of the vote in only 13 states.
Of the states she won by plurailty: NV, CO, NM, MN, VA, NH, ME. The Johnson vote exceeded her margin of victory in all of them but Virginia.
Look at these NY slimes maps
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/16/us/politics/the-two-americas-of-2016.html
2 maps, in one Shillery areas are turned into lakes (and coastal erosion).
In the other Trump areas create a vast ocean with a Shillery archipelago.
“xcuse me, but lets talk voter fraud and the 3 million illegals who voted!!!! Then there are the felons, voting machines that registered Hitlery when the vote was cast for Trump, and those who voted repeatedly, and the 1.3 million DEAD who voted!!! Let’s talk about the Soros-voting machines in how many states???”
If we don’t DEMAND a fail proof voting system after all this fraud, I tell you we are too stupid to survive as a nation !
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