In discussing the election, I’ve been telling people that Hillary didn’t win the popular vote.
What I’ve been telling them, is that Hillary got a plurality, more votes than anyone else, but not a majority. So it’s not really true to say Hillary won the popular vote.
I’ve also told people that her entire margin over Trump can be said to come out of California. So if you back out California vote totals from the national totals, both electoral vote and popular vote, then Trump had a landslide in the other 49 states.
When I tell some liberal leaning types these things, they get all flustered and grumpy and tend to shut up.
Also, want to add, I’ve told these liberals that nobody bitched about it, when Bill Clinton won a clear electoral vote victory with only 43% of the popular vote in 1992. That too leaves them flustered with no snappy snarky comebacks.
Donald Trump won the popular vote in 30 out of 50 states!
Take a look at her popular vote win in Los Angeles County
as compared to her total popular vote win nationwide.
I tell them we had 50 elections, and Trump won the majority of them.
No state Hillary won awarded their EVs to Trump, so why should states where Trump won the popular vote award their EVs to Hillary?
I also offer the idea of doing it by county or congressional district. Needless to say they still make up excuses.
Tell them that more than 50% of the people voted against her than for her. Then say that the same was true for Trump, but Trump won the Electoral College.
-PJ
Not to argue with you, but what you’re saying doesn’t make sense. You are correct that she didn’t win a majority but she still won the popular vote.
I’ve been telling people that politics is a game; Trump won because he knew the rules of the game and played better than Clinton. Change the rules and you change the way the game is played. With the electoral college system, Trump never went to California, and held no rallies in New York. And there was no need to do so. Change it to a national “popular vote” and he spends time in California and New York.
He could still have won by playing a different strategy to meet the requirements of the game. And he was still a better player than Clinton.
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Hillary got less legitimate votes than Trump, by many millions.
That is the important point.
The rest is chaff.
“I’ve also told people that her entire margin over Trump can be said to come out of California. So if you back out California vote totals from the national totals, both electoral vote and popular vote, then Trump had a landslide in the other 49 states.”
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Thanks for that——makes things easier to explain.
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