Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 election but lost key swing states and, under our complicated and arguably unfair Electoral College system, this meant losing the presidency.
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This article was in al jazeera. It makes sense they don’t understand how our country works.
The Rats keep saying that HRC “won” the popular vote...like they did with Gore in 2000. Neither won a majority of the popular vote (even if we pretend there were no fraudulent votes counted). In all of American history only one candidate who lost because of the electoral college actually had over 50% of the popular vote...Samuel Tilden in 1876. Even in that case, if we knew all the details, he may have gotten to 51% only because of voter suppression in the South (Democrats preventing freedmen from voting).
You're suggesting al Jazeera's correspondent in Yucatan doesn't understand US elections? May be right.