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liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:45 PM Nov 2016

SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS! 2 MILLION VOTES! 2,000,000!

Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump in the popular vote surpassed 2 million Wednesday morning, according to Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

Clinton has garnered 64,223,958 votes, compared to Trump’s 62,206,395 votes.

By Nov. 15, the Democratic nominee’s advantage had crossed the 1-million mark and ballooned to 1.5 million by Sunday.

Despite Clinton’s lead in the popular vote, it was Trump who prevailed on Election Day by clinching 270 Electoral College votes.

Trump told New York Times reporters Tuesday he would “rather do the popular vote” and was “never a fan of the Electoral College until now.”


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Abolish the Electoral College or demand a recount!!!
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SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS! 2 MILLION VOTES! 2,000,000! (Original Post) liberalnarb Nov 2016 OP
k n r Achilleaze Nov 2016 #1
And share this graphic: That's already more votes than Trump got in ten states totalled! Coyotl Nov 2016 #15
K&R treestar Nov 2016 #2
What happened on election night was a coup. Initech Nov 2016 #3
16 year's ago they used the SCOTUS to steal an election. Now the SCOTUS is being stolen! liberalnarb Nov 2016 #6
This is fucking wrong on so many levels. Initech Nov 2016 #8
500,000 PAMod Nov 2016 #12
Ok, so she won by 4 times Gore's margin. liberalnarb Nov 2016 #17
Beyond any reasonable margin of error or probability. Coyotl Nov 2016 #16
in a democracy, it would matter robbedvoter Nov 2016 #7
Abolish the Electoral College or demand a recount!!! MADem Nov 2016 #4
K&R bdamomma Nov 2016 #5
Woo hoo! We ARE more popular!! jmg257 Nov 2016 #9
The EC was created to appease the slave states, and everything we still do is to appease them world wide wally Nov 2016 #10
Which states have slaves? cwydro Nov 2016 #13
Talking about the ones that did at the time.. They still have the same names world wide wally Nov 2016 #14
You might want to look at what states voted for Trump. cwydro Nov 2016 #18
We started out talking about the a Electoral College world wide wally Nov 2016 #22
Ok world wide wally. cwydro Nov 2016 #23
The only problem is that the states that unfairly benefit from the EC would have to be the ones to libtodeath Nov 2016 #11
My main question ... lpbk2713 Nov 2016 #19
I don't know but it still wasn't the majority. liberalnarb Nov 2016 #20
I think it's going to reach 3 million. roamer65 Nov 2016 #21
K&R nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2016 #24
 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
15. And share this graphic: That's already more votes than Trump got in ten states totalled!
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 05:21 PM
Nov 2016

And the Clinton margin is still growing, projected to be 2.5 million.



Add up all the Trump votes in eleven states, and you get Clinton's projected winning margin.

Initech

(100,080 posts)
3. What happened on election night was a coup.
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:48 PM
Nov 2016

It was a coup designed to steal control of SCOTUS. It was a coup designed to transform the country into a racist cesspool.

 

liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
6. 16 year's ago they used the SCOTUS to steal an election. Now the SCOTUS is being stolen!
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:51 PM
Nov 2016

And the election. Al Gore won by 200,000 votes in 2000. Hillary's 2,000,000 is 10 TIMES Al Gore's margin.

Initech

(100,080 posts)
8. This is fucking wrong on so many levels.
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 03:00 PM
Nov 2016

If they want a war, they've got one. I'm not taking this sitting down.

 

liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
17. Ok, so she won by 4 times Gore's margin.
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 06:26 PM
Nov 2016

Still a ridiculous amount more to have lost the election.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
16. Beyond any reasonable margin of error or probability.
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 05:23 PM
Nov 2016
Simply off the charts statistically! (Pun intended.)

MADem

(135,425 posts)
4. Abolish the Electoral College or demand a recount!!!
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:50 PM
Nov 2016

Or both!

Clearly, more people in this country are NOT bigots, and their wishes should hold sway.

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)
22. We started out talking about the a Electoral College
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 09:02 PM
Nov 2016

I am still talking about it.
But since you are so partial to it, let me ask you why a vote in Wyoming is worth 3 in California.
Wouldn't one man - one vote be more in line with democracy?

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
23. Ok world wide wally.
Thu Nov 24, 2016, 07:19 AM
Nov 2016

you're the one who brought up "slave states".

I see you no longer want to go there - a good thing.

As far as the EC: it sucks and should be abolished. Probably we agree on that one.

libtodeath

(2,888 posts)
11. The only problem is that the states that unfairly benefit from the EC would have to be the ones to
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 03:13 PM
Nov 2016
abolish it.
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