Posted on 12/19/2016 8:53:16 AM PST by Mozilla
Democrats who are having trouble getting out of denial aren't being helped by the fact that Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote has topped 2.8 million, giving her a 48% share of the vote compared with Trumps 46%.
To those unschooled in how the United States selects presidents, this seems totally unfair. But look more closely at the numbers and you see that Clinton's advantage disappears.
While Clinton's overall margin looks large, it is due to Clinton's huge margin of victory in one state California where she got a whopping 4.3 million more votes.
California is the only state where Clinton's margin of victory was bigger than President Obama's in 2012 61.5% vs. Obama's 60%.
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections.
In recent years, California has been turning into what amounts to a one-party state. Between 2008 and 2016, the number of Californian's who registered as Democrats climbed by 1.1 million, while the number of registered Republicans dropped by almost 400,000.
Many Republicans in the state had nobody to vote for in November.
There were two Democrats and zero Republicans running to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer. There were no Republicans on the ballot for House seats in nine of California's congressional districts.
At the state level, six districts had no Republicans running for the state senate, and 16 districts had no Republicans running for state assembly seats.
Republicans knew Clinton was going to win the state and its entire 55 electoral votes casting a ballot for Trump was virtually meaningless.
If you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes.
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When the Dems run the state and are doing the fraud they all look the other way.
California has undergone a sea change in Demographics. 1965 Immigration Act plus rolling amnesties.
I support Calexit so that they can get out of country and deal with the consequences. I pray for everyone who is conservative in the state.
Thank you, Founding Fathers, for the Electoral College.
TRUMP WON MORE STATES
TRUMP WON VOTES COVERING MORE SQUARE MILES.
Why you ask dost that matter?
It doesn’t matter. Either does ‘popular vote’... it’s not how the game’s scored.
TRUMP WON MORE STATES
TRUMP WON VOTES COVERING MORE SQUARE MILES.
Why you ask does that matter?
It doesn’t matter. Either does ‘popular vote’... it’s not how the game’s scored.
You are right. The amnesty of 65 began the ball rolling to what the state is now. I don’t think the media realizes the scope of illegals in our nation. It is more than 11 million especially since we are bringing in middle eastern foreigners. That’s one of the biggest reasons Trump won. To stop this nonsense. They weren’t even vetted.
One search for the increase in illegal Chinese brought up a article on how they are crossing our border.
“The number of Chinese immigrants illegally crossing the Mexican border into California has skyrocketed in recent years, the result of a lucrative smuggling industry, mass migration from China and a diversifying pool of migrants settling in the United States.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-chinese-border-california-20160607-snap-story.html
Not a peep on this from most of the media.
Correction: I meant the 1965 Immigration Act.
Since CA registers illegal aliens to vote, they can STHU about the popular vote.
In Connecticut, it seemed that a few Obama towns went Trump, and a few of Romney towns went more for Trump.
Interesting because had Hillary won, I think California would be the model for the rest of the nation. The GOP becoming a rump party with many not even bothering to run as in California.
And encourage them in their efforts to secede :-)
Unless there was massive anti-Trump enthusiasm in California that never translated to the rest of the country.
Which tells me she made a great speech to the choir; but failed to resonate among independent voters.
“And encourage them in their efforts to secede.”
Indeed.
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