[Prov1322]

Love this line...

When the dust settled, she lost the rest of the country by 3 million votes.

[BobinIL]

Conservative and independent voters in NY IL and CA are disenfranchised and many do not bother to vote. But you will never hear about them in the MSM.

[OddLane]

I can't tell you how many times I've had to post the link to the Schoolhouse Rock song explaining the Electoral College to liberals on social media.

The popular vote is not relevant, and for good reason.

6.8% of the population of California consists of illegal aliens.

The idea that it is representative of the electorate, or should determine who becomes POTUS, is absurd.

[RayChuang88]

In short, subtract out California and four of the five boroughs of New York City and Trump wins going away in the popular vote. That’s something the people who want to do away from the Electoral College conveniently ignore.

[duckman]

Bet there is much fraud in the NY and Ca counts.

[Coffee_drinker]

I don’t think she won the popular vote.

She won PV ==== FAKE NEWS.

If they dig into the fraud, which they won’t it will be reviled that she lost that too, but it’s a waste of time for Trump to pursue.

[protest1]

As has been noted elsewhere but is worth repeating Donald Trump would have campaigned differently if it was about only the popular vote. He would have held rallies the length and breath of California and New York and even if he did not win the majority of votes in those areas he would have significantly increased his vote and conversely reduced Mrs Clinton vote. Donald Trump would have won the popular vote if that was how it was set up before the election.

A second point is of course that you can't be 100% in favour of an electoral college, as the Democrats were, and then do a 100 degree about face and demand a rerun under a different set of rules.

[SpaceBar]

Illegal ‘votes’ aren’t votes. Hillary got squat.

[Know et al]

Founding fathers 1
Hillary 0

[Vinnie]

On the radio...
Exclude NYC and LA county, Trump wins popular vote by 50k.

[Organic Panic]

I would love if Trump actually takes on vote fraud. We are one of the few nations that don’t require voting IDs. Why??? Oh... Democrats. Not only illegal aliens, but the snowbirds who have a house in Jersey, and a condo in Florida, who vote in both states.

[CptnObvious]

Get rid of the Electoral College and these two states will dominate the other 48.

[justa-hairyape]

The Hillary campaign, like the idiots they were, assumed the Electoral College was there’s. So they took the Trump Troll Bait and went for the popular vote win. The bait was Trump contesting the election results. He never was planning to actually do that. Fools. The Left and the Neocons need to realize they are out of their League. The real adults have returned.

[Kickass Conservative]

Liberals want us too live in a real life Hunger Games.

The ruling “District” sets the rules for all the other Districts.

Donald Sutherland for President!

[Ladysforest]

Did you know that if you added up the 2015 “estimated” population of the twenty-two states (including non-voting DC) with lowest population it totals 36,738,123?

The 2015 estimated (legal?) population total in California is 39,144,818.

CA has a 2015 estimate of 2,406,695 more people than TWENTY-TWO states combined. (I am aware that DC is not a state - but they are pushing for a vote, so I included them)

So, if I do a goofy thing and pretend that every single person in CA is legal to vote and all cast their vote for Hillary, then I pretend that all the people in the other twenty-one states and DC are eligible to vote and they all cast their votes for Trump. Hillary would have 2,406,695 MORE votes than Trump. Which is quite close to the number of “popular” votes she received over Trumps total, LOL.

THIS is why we should fight to retain the electoral collage.

[LouAvul]

I sure hope I never have to kneel to the likes of moonbeam brown nose or deblasio. Without the EC, that’s exactly what will happen.

[sdthree]

Even if you include NY in the tally, Trump still won the popular vote by 1.4 million votes across 49 out of 50 states.

California has been discussing secession. The rest of the country ought to do everything it can to encourage it.

[Sam Gamgee]

So either he was really really reviled in California, or CA was just the easiest state to cheat in. The swing states were too hard to penetrate with dead or illegal voters, and the polls were watched very very carefully.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

When the dust settled, she lost the rest of the country by 3 million votes.
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Yes. Great line. Whenever in the future I am discussing the election, and the popular vote is mentioned, I will immediately make the very important and truthful distinction between the LEGAL popular vote won by President Trump and the ILLEGAL popular vote won by Mrs. Clinton. I think we should always make that truthful clarification.

[snarkytart]

Her upper hand with voters, however, came down to performances in New York and California that were far stronger than necessary. Clinton won California by 4.2 million and took New York by more than 1.6 million. The combined 5.8 million-vote advantage in just those two states was more than twice the size of her overall edge nationwide. When the dust settled, she lost the rest of the country by 3 million votes. (Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...

This is finally out, and what I've been saying since the day after the election. I was watching the popular vote tally and Trump was ahead until early in the morning the following day when Cali was tallied. If flipped to her, and grew steadily as Cali counted their mail-in ballots. WE NEED THIS TO BE REPEATED BY RUSH AND SEAN, and OTHERS.

[egfowler3]

I'm curious about those tally numbers

My spreadsheet of all 50 state vote tallies does not match the prevailing numbers. Maybe someone has also built a sheet I can match against?

my numbers come out as:
Trump -------- 61,696,067 ---- 47.73%
Hillary ------- 61,100,644 ----- 47.27%
All others ----- 6,460,493 ----- 5.00%
Total votes -- 129,257,204 --- 100.00%

Clearly Trump has the Majority of the popular vote.