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Outside California, Clinton Is A Big-Time Popular Vote Loser
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 11/17/2016 | John Merline

Posted on 11/17/2016 3:29:45 AM PST by IBD editorial writer

Donald Trump's opponents are having something of a field day with news that Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote currently tops 1 million.

As US News put it, "Trump's legitimacy has been called into question by his adversaries because he didn't win the popular vote, adding to the desire among his critics to defy him from the start of his administration."

The Nation alerted its readers that "Republican nominee will become president with less popular support than a number of major-party candidates who lost races for the presidency." [snip]

But a closer look at the election returns show that Hillary's lead in the popular vote is entirely due to her oversized margin of victory in uber-liberal California.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; electoralcollege; popularvote; trump
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1 posted on 11/17/2016 3:29:46 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
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Poll: 13% of Illegal Aliens ADMIT They Vote
2 posted on 11/17/2016 3:36:13 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Clinton's actions speak louder than Trump's words.)
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Absentee Ballots ...... STFU Snowflakes.


3 posted on 11/17/2016 3:39:16 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: IBD editorial writer
Donald Trump's opponents are having something of a field day with news that Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote currently tops 1 million.

Article II, Section 1, et seq

"Field day" is over. Go home.

4 posted on 11/17/2016 3:39:31 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Clean up the voter rolls states.


5 posted on 11/17/2016 3:39:39 AM PST by PGalt (CONGRATULATIONS Donald J. Trump)
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California illegales. Maybe they’d like her as gubernor.


6 posted on 11/17/2016 3:40:09 AM PST by nonsporting
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

California has something like one quarter of all the illegal immigrants in the US, and its demographics strongly favor the democrats.


7 posted on 11/17/2016 3:40:16 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: IBD editorial writer

Best reason for the electoral college.


8 posted on 11/17/2016 3:40:47 AM PST by just me (God bless President Truump and the USA)
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To: Squantos

And Illegal alien vote.


9 posted on 11/17/2016 3:41:13 AM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: just me
Our forefathers were geniuses about incorporating the Electoral process in the constitution.

Just ran the numbers. If you take CA out of the popular vote, Trump wins 57M to 55M in popular vote. Just more proof that we need the electoral process.

10 posted on 11/17/2016 3:50:53 AM PST by wright2bear (#NeverTrump is a mental disorder!)
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To: IBD editorial writer

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/hillary_wins_the_popular_vote__not_.html


11 posted on 11/17/2016 3:51:34 AM PST by preacher
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NO POPULAR VOTE

Hillary can never win the popular vote.
Trump won the popular vote.
All that remains are the lies.

The basketball game is over and Democrats stay all night shooting hoops.

Democrats always lie. It is what they do.
They even lie about the lies. Relentlessly.


12 posted on 11/17/2016 3:52:13 AM PST by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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13 posted on 11/17/2016 3:52:50 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Other than Trump, who didn’t bother campaigning in California, there was no Republican on the statewide ballot there. But there were TWO DEMOCRATS fighting it out for US Senate.

Bottom line, Republicans had no real reason to vote (other than make a statement), but Democrats had a real contest. Had the election been about the popular vote, Trump would have gotten many of those millions of California Republicans (and yes, there are millions) to go out and vote.


14 posted on 11/17/2016 3:58:32 AM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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Send all of Clinton’s illegal immigrants home, that voted illegally in California....and California turns bright “Trump” red!!! Simple, sent all the Illegals back to their home countries, stop the low life Democrat vote cheating, and, turnout the Trump voters that stayed home and did not cast their ‘legal” votes for Donald J. Trump, as they know how badly their states cheat with illegal and fraud votes!!! End of story!!! Ditto for New York!!!

Trump needs to urge all the states to purge their voting rolls of all illegal voters, dead or alive, and get them to all, pass voter Photo ID to be used when voting. Folks....IMHO, the crooked Democrat Poarty needs to be totally destroyed at the ballot box, come the 2018 mid term elections!!!

I suspect with leaders like Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the idiot Democrat vermin will do themselves in....with just a little push from us “good guys”!!! Let them, the Democrats, the biased Media, burn in hell with Obama & the Clintons!!


15 posted on 11/17/2016 3:58:49 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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This graphic from the article sums it up pretty well. Trump won the popular vote in 49 states. He lost it massively in California.

Should we change the Constitution so that California can decide who gets to be President?

Give me a break.


16 posted on 11/17/2016 4:12:01 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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Too bad for Hillary that the state of denial doesn’t have any electoral votes.


17 posted on 11/17/2016 4:13:55 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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Don’t forget NY

NY:

Hillary Clinton 4,149,500
Donald J. Trump 2,639,994


18 posted on 11/17/2016 4:14:03 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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To: BobL

That’s a good point.


19 posted on 11/17/2016 4:17:00 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
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Take away all the fraud and I will guarantee she didn’t win the popular vote. Of course she will say or do anything to win. To her it doesn’t matter if she wins squarely or not. I don’t understand people like that because I’m not a cheater or psychopath. The woman’s moral code has obviously been twisted by Alinsky, witchcraft, and politics for too long to get that...


20 posted on 11/17/2016 4:20:56 AM PST by jsanders2001
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