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Facts Matter: Four Responses to 'Hillary Won the Popular Vote'
tornhall.com ^ | 11/30/16 | Guy Benson

Posted on 12/02/2016 7:46:40 AM PST by johnk

... Democrats can't simply run up the score in giant liberal states like California, New York and Illinois and call it a day. Similarly, Republicans can't dominate Texas and the South and pull off a win. The equation is more complex -- with an array of constituencies, featuring varied opinions and dispositions, needing to be wooed. This is by design.

To that end, Donald Trump carried approximately 82 percent of all US counties, with Hillary Clinton's success being mostly limited to large urban, left-leaning populations. Trump won a supermajority of states and an overwhelming majority of counties, from coast to coast....


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To: johnk

four touchdowns beat seven field goals. she scored more times, but that doesn’t mean she wins.


41 posted on 12/02/2016 9:28:30 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: Personal Responsibility

And she still had to cheat her fat ass off


42 posted on 12/02/2016 9:29:30 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: rhoda_penmark
And the military absentee vote would be ours. :-)

Exactly!

43 posted on 12/02/2016 9:29:55 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: BitWielder1

What a load of poo. ALL absentee ballots are counted in every State. Every time. They may not be reported on Election Night but they are always fully included in the final certified results. There are other offices on absentee ballots besides President, especially local races where every vote really does come into play.

It takes a breathtaking amount of group ignorance for people to keep spouting this same baseless crap.


44 posted on 12/02/2016 9:39:05 AM PST by Go_Raiders (Freedom doesn't give you the right to take from others, no matter how innocent your program sounds.)
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To: Rusty0604

We have the same problem in Nevada.....


45 posted on 12/02/2016 11:05:33 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

I know. But some FReeper yesterday said NV doesn’t have that problem, that most are legal immigrants and they have voter ID.


46 posted on 12/02/2016 11:07:47 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: LoneStarGI

It’s worse than that. Hillary won by 1. million votes in LA county alone. Assuming she took the popular vote by 2 mil, it sounds like removing 2 US counties from the vote, LA, CA and Cook, IL, would throw it to Trump.

But the real answer to give is that, if popular vote was the goal, campaigning by the candidates, and voter intensity would have been totally different. So it really is an apples/oranges proposition to even talk about the popular vote.


47 posted on 12/02/2016 11:12:57 AM PST by XEHRpa
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To: johnk

He didn’t even reach the part about felons voting in some states, dead voting, and illegals voting.


48 posted on 12/02/2016 11:16:40 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: mastertex

I thought Trump was suppose to be the bad loser?


49 posted on 12/02/2016 11:18:13 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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An extrapolation comparison:

If we lived in a one world government, China and India candidates would win every election for the next 1000 years.


50 posted on 12/02/2016 11:18:50 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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51 posted on 12/02/2016 11:21:49 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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