Posted on 12/14/2016 10:17:32 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
She is always trying to blame everyone else for her crimes. In reality, she has no one to blame but herself.
You forgot Blue Meanies.
35. The democratic platform (Abortion, Homosexual issues such as gay marriage, Attacks on the coal industry, etc.)
Hillary ran up the score (popular vote) in states where it didn’t matter. And did nothing to protect her presumed lead in the "blue wall” states which did matter.
Politics
Clinton Wins Fewer Electoral Votes Than Any Dem Since 1988
November 10, 2016 | by Oren Peleg
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may have won the popular vote in the 2016 election — and by an incredibly slim margin — but her electoral vote is one of the lowest in recent history. Having won over 60 million votes (50.12 percent of the popular vote), Clinton gained only 228 electoral votes — the lowest for any Democrat since Michael Dukakis ran in 1988.
“This is the worst Democratic performance in the electoral college since Dukakis 88,” Chuck Todd, a news anchor for NBC, tweeted on Nov. 9.
According to 270ToWin, Dukakis, who ran against Vice President George H. W. Bush, garnered only 111 electoral votes. Bush picked up 426 votes — only 270 are needed to become president.
However, unlike Clinton, Dukakis lost the popular vote by nearly 7 million votes.
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But do not expect the Electoral College to disappear tomorrow.
“I think if elections continue as they are, I think the Electoral College is here to stay,” John Hudak of the Brookings Institution said, reports CBS News. “I think that a couple of elections close together where the popular vote loser is the Electoral College winner, I think you’ll start to see much more movement on that.”
“I know that over the past 200 years, there have been dozens and dozens of proposals to do it and it hasn’t happened so far,” Hans A. von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation added.
Clinton is now the fifth presidential candidate in history to win the popular vote, yet lose the electoral vote. The closest previous case was Al Gore’s loss to George W. Bush in 2000, notes NPR.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/clinton-wins-fewer-electoral-votes-any-democrat-dukakis
And when you look at the margins by which she lost Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin, she barely lost in spite of all those factors. If she can barely lose in spite of all those factors, Trump would have had zero chance against a Democrat candidate with better health and more energy.
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