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Presidential Election Results [Clinton Leads Trump By 240,000 In Popular Vote]
CBS News ^ | 09 November 2016

Posted on 11/09/2016 9:25:19 AM PST by zeestephen

Without the Electoral College, neither George W. Bush or Donald Trump would have won their first term.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: electoralcollege; trump2016
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To: TheConservativeParty

Well well well..now don’t forget tens of thousands of illegals became citizens yesterday just by voting !


101 posted on 11/09/2016 10:15:06 AM PST by libh8er
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To: Genoa
the popular vote needs to be taken with a big grain of salt.

Campaigning would be very different if we had a pure democracy. Those who whine about winning the popular vote might think their baseball team should have won if they had 20 hits vs the opponent's 5, though they only had 4 runs vs. the opponents 5 (all home runs).

Pure democracy: two foxes and one chicken voting on what's for lunch.

102 posted on 11/09/2016 10:16:31 AM PST by Freee-dame
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To: ponygirl

“Trump would have won Virginia if it hadn’t been for the prison vote.”

Let’s not forget our good friend of the GOPe Egg McMuffin and, well, the GOPe in general.

I’m hoping beyond hope VA begins a shift back to reality over the next few years. If Trump delivers even a trivial reduction of the FedGov in his first term (:-)), you’ll see an exodus from the counties that screw up VA politics these days.


103 posted on 11/09/2016 10:21:15 AM PST by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: zeestephen

Without fraud, multi voting, dead folks, “assisted’ ballot fill ins, illegal immigrants, JFK would never have been elected, nor LBJ’s Senate campaign

Along with Slick and Obambi . .twice

PS Nor Al Baby Franken . .and countless others


104 posted on 11/09/2016 10:23:54 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Unsecured email ALONE renders hilLIAR INcompetent to be CIC . . .)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

The 9 million I posted was from charts I found a few days earlier. The figure is actually lower. My bad.

Here’s some interesting data.

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/federal-employees-workforce-numbers-by-state.html


105 posted on 11/09/2016 10:27:15 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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To: zeestephen

The founders were inspired to mandate this. The EC insures all parts of the country matter


106 posted on 11/09/2016 10:29:16 AM PST by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: poinq

Correct! Of course the liberals, Dems and media will claim Trump does not have a mandate because he did not win the popular vote. It doesn’t matter, that is not how we do Presidential elections. It will not change either. No way will the smaller states agree to a constitutional amendment that would for all practical purposes make their Presidential votes useless.


107 posted on 11/09/2016 10:31:05 AM PST by martinidon
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To: zeestephen

She “won” the popular vote solely due to millions illegal aliens and legal non citizens illegally voting in our elections!

Trump won the popular vote of legal voters (ie CITIZENS)!


108 posted on 11/09/2016 10:31:37 AM PST by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertisers)
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To: sodpoodle
****Trump would have won Virginia if it hadn’t been for the prison vote.**** and the 9million Federal employees who live in Maryland & Virginia.

I'm not sure there is much of a difference between those two groups, other than one group got caught and the other group hasn't been yet.

109 posted on 11/09/2016 10:39:43 AM PST by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of incompetence and corruption.)
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To: All

The popular vote argument is void because the rules dictate the campaign process. If Donald Trump had faced the task of winning the popular vote, he would have spent at least some more time and advertising money in CA, NY and possibly MA, states that he probably figured were a waste of his time and money. He could have adjusted his campaign to get a few more tenths of a percentage of the popular vote, if that had been the pathway to victory.

The electoral college has kept two climate nuts out of the White House, an outcome the founding fathers would perhaps appreciate once it was explained to them, and they stopped laughing (”they really think that? By God, our descendants have lost their minds.”)


110 posted on 11/09/2016 10:41:51 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (author of "The Obama Nightmare -- Pivot to Nuance, and the Frequent Use of the first person,")
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To: zeestephen
About 98% of the Comments on this thread are “whistling past the political graveyard.”

When the final vote is counted, Trump will get about 1 million more votes than Romney got in 2012.

Hillary Clinton will get about 3 million less votes than Obama got in 2012.

Nationally, the Democrat Party has enough LEGAL voters to beat the Republicans in every presidential election and every mid-term election.

The only time Democrats lose nationally is when they fail to get their LEGAL voters to the polls.

111 posted on 11/09/2016 10:48:09 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

I heard a guy this AM that said the absentee ballots are essentially uncounted and if they were counted would swing for DT and put him over this popular vote.


112 posted on 11/09/2016 11:03:03 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: kabar

California is a special problem child. It could easily become 3 or 4 states. Few conservative presidents attempt to appeal to it. Trump still might, in his administration.


113 posted on 11/09/2016 11:09:35 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: wareagle7295

Washington state too all three states down the left coast vote lib.


114 posted on 11/09/2016 11:11:01 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: A politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: Peter ODonnell

The warming panic comes from taking no context beyond the immediate.


115 posted on 11/09/2016 11:11:09 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Yeah... if they’re “moot” as to the official result they get ignored... and the meme will keep on bouncing around out there that “Hillary won the popular vote.”


116 posted on 11/09/2016 11:12:59 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Which is another good reason to vote on actual Election Day. Then, what you voted shows up in the popular vote.


117 posted on 11/09/2016 11:13:59 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ScottinVA

Thats outstanding.


118 posted on 11/09/2016 11:14:11 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: zeestephen

If the popular vote determined the winner, we would see a nationwide recount. Noncitizen votes thrown out, Trump wins


119 posted on 11/09/2016 11:20:51 AM PST by dixie1202
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
They won't have to quit, Trump will fire them.

And that goes for all of Obummer's "czars" as well.

120 posted on 11/09/2016 11:20:56 AM PST by dglang
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