Here are the facts:
Trump won the popular vote in 31 states to Clinton’s 19 and DC. 62% to her 38%.
Trump led in the total popular vote for all states except California.
Hillary won California: 5,860,714 to Trump’s 3,151,821. 61.6% to 33.1%, exclusive of the other candidates. Thus California gave Hillary the popular vote for all states as claimed by the Democrats and their media stooges.
But deduct her California vote from her national vote leaving her with 54,978,783, and deduct Trump’s California vote from his national total, leaving him with 57,113.976, he wins in a landslide in the other 49 states, 51.3% to her 48.7%.
So, in effect, Hillary was elected president of California and Trump was elected president of the rest of the country, by a substantial margin.
This exemplifies the wisdom of the Electoral College, to prevent the votes of any one populace state from overriding the votes of the others.
Trump’s Campaign Manager, Kellyanne Conway, whose expertise is polling, saw this early on and devised her strategy of “6 pathways to the White House”. This meant ignoring California with its huge Democrat majority and going after the states that would give him the necessary electoral votes to win, FL, NC, MI, PA, OH, and WI.
At its lowest point since the civil war! Could this mean the end of the Democratic Party?
When the afternoon of January 20, 2017 arrives, the Republican Party will have:
1) The Presidency.
2) A majority of the House of Representatives.
3) A majority of the Senate.
4) Almost two-thirds of all the governors.
5) Total control of the statehouses in almost two-thirds of all the states.
6) And in the near future, Republicans will be able to add a majority of the Supreme Court.
The above has never happened before in American history.
Think about this and let it sink in for a moment.
And it’s all because of one reason: Barack Obama forcing his extreme far-left agenda on an unwilling country by executive orders, left wing judges, and obsequious bureaucrats.
It’s important to pass this on.
With the demand that we do away with the Electoral College and take the popular vote being pushed by the media, etc., all Americans need to know that the Electoral College is working exactly as our Founding Fathers intended.
She won the popular vote. That is all that matters to most people. I appreciate your effort, so for those that are reading your post, get it and got it months ago.
I am aware of only one country which elects their national leader by direct popular vote— North Korea. Are there any others?
Bill Clinton never came close to 50%. George W. Bush did not get there in the first election. Even Reagan did not get there the first time. But there does not seem to be any correlation in the success of a president and the size of his margin of victory.
I live in a very liberal area, and the abhorrence of Trump, for those with little ideological leanings, was his personality. It came down to the fact that Trump is “mean”, is a “liar”, ect...
I said in 2008, that the election of Barack Obama would prove to be the Democrats undoing, due to the fact that he would engender so much OPPOSITION from normal, everyday Americans.
I knew then, that he was so radical, that he would toss out the American left’s carefully managed strategy of slow incrementalism, and would tromp on the gas pedal to Utopia.
Just as I knew it would, it backfired in spectacular, historic fashion.