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To: Safrguns

It’s possible and has happened before. Remember Al Gore claimed the popular vote in 2000 but Bush got the electoral votes.

The reason you can win more individual votes is that the electoral votes are based on Congressional Districts mainly and Congress froze the number of districts some years ago. Therefore, districts (and electoral votes) are rearranged regularly according to census data, even shifting from one state to another. Large population states have districts which represent many more individual voters per district compared to lower population states. As am example, Idaho has a population of approximately 1.6 million and four electoral votes. That works out to one vote per around 425,000 people. California, on the other hand, has a population of nearly 40 million and 55 electoral votes, which works out to one electoral vote per 715,454 voters.


35 posted on 11/10/2016 5:36:38 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: caseinpoint

Meant to say one electoral vote per 715,454 individuals, not voters.


40 posted on 11/10/2016 5:46:17 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: caseinpoint

Winning the popular vote and losing in a landslide at the EC should not be possible.

Only way that can happen is with fraud.


43 posted on 11/10/2016 5:51:46 PM PST by Safrguns
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And we’re lucky that the electoral votes are calculated to give large rural states some power.

Where do most of the globalists live? New York, California, Illinois, DC.

The genius of the Trump campaign is they didn’t waste resources on trying to win the popular vote. It means nothing.

Trump got out his voters. That’s all that counts, snowflakes.


105 posted on 11/10/2016 8:48:47 PM PST by poconopundit (`)
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