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book_worm

(15,951 posts) Fri Nov 18, 2016, 10:45 PM Nov 2016

HRC is up by 1.5 million votes with still at least 4 million still to be counted many in CA,WA, UT

During the 2012 election between Obama and Mitt Romney, Obama won with a total vote of 65,915,795. There’s still four million votes to be counted in California and Utah, which could potentially move Clinton even closer to Obama’s 2012 total and ahead of Trump by nearly 2 million more votes.

http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-trump-latest-2016-election-results-popular-vote-final-tally-depends-michigan-2448281

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HRC is up by 1.5 million votes with still at least 4 million still to be counted many in CA,WA, UT (Original Post) book_worm Nov 2016 OP

And she will be very close to Obama in vote total even though she's facing pnwmom Nov 2016 #1

Thank God for the left coast Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2016 #2

We tried MFM008 Nov 2016 #3

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)

1. And she will be very close to Obama in vote total even though she's facing

Reply to book_worm (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 11:00 PM

Nov 2016

voter suppression far beyond what happened in 2012 -- because the courts in 2013 decimated the voting rights act.

Millions since then have been purged, or newly required to provide voter ID, or had their polling place removed, or early voting days eliminated.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,010 posts)

2. Thank God for the left coast

Reply to book_worm (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 11:12 PM

Nov 2016

MFM008

(19,814 posts)

3. We tried

Reply to book_worm (Original post)

Sat Nov 19, 2016, 02:19 AM

Nov 2016

But we're stabbed in back by Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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