Clintons popular vote lead surpasses two million.
Source: NYT
With new votes tallied from New Jersey, Illinois, Maryland and California, Mrs. Clintons popular vote lead reached 2,017,563 overnight.
Mrs. Clintons lead now exceeds the winning percentages of seven presidents, five of whom also won the Electoral College. And it has given rise to a push from liberal activists to demand audits in three states won narrowly by Mr. Trump: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
mainly it is pointing toward a structural disadvantage Democrats have with the Electoral College: Their voters are too concentrated in the bright blue states of the West Coast and Northeast. Democrats have now won the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, but lost two of them (Al Gore in 2000, and Mrs. Clinton now) in the Electoral College.
Hillary Clinton has widened her lead in the popular vote to 1.5 percentage points, a spread not seen for a losing candidate since 1876.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/donald-trump-transition.html
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)Rat bastards.
blueseas
(11,575 posts)And I hope all news organizations continue to tell the public.
Initech
(100,081 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)That it was him who won in the rigged system and he LOST the peoples vote.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Even in his 4th and final year, it should be mentioned over and over. He should be called the "Electoral College holder" of the office.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)I am so sorry to have been wrong. This slow motion train wreck is a complete catastrophe and horrible miscarriage of justice.
ramapo
(4,588 posts)A miscarriage of a campaign that results in injustice for millions.
Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)PatSeg
(47,501 posts)I really thought things could never get worse. It appears there is no bottom.
Botany
(70,516 posts)"Democrats have now won the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, but lost two of them (Al Gore in 2000, and Mrs. Clinton now) in the Electoral College." (BTW Kerry won OH in 2004)
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)with stupid stuff like name not 'exactly' the same
Botany
(70,516 posts)And not all people who vote a provisional ballot are being scammed. In the most
cases I have seen is that the person requested an abstentee ballot but did not use
it.
A provisional ballot does not mean it is a bad ballot but that it will be counted later
if the person is a registered voter.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)mopinko
(70,127 posts)and their absentee ballot would be cancelled. wtf ohio?
Botany
(70,516 posts)but they have to vote a provisional ballot if they have requested an absentee prior
to election day ..... and if they are a registered voter and they did not use their absentee
ballot and their vote should be counted.
But w/that being said our Sec. of State Jon Husted was using "crosscheck" in OH and
what I fear is that helped to swing Ohio's election to Trump. HRC was crushing Trump
in the early vote.
BTW sadly we have at least 25% of the population who have bought into HRC is a
crook, a bitch, and she will take away "your gunz" crap.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)if the trend was reversed and they were winning the popular vote but denied office.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)Why can't reporters tell the truth?
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Sunlei
(22,651 posts)republicans did all that shit.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Clinton won Minnesota.
And 2008 was as much due to the Obama factor (and to the 2 terms of Bush and the Republicans) as it was to Howard Dean.
SpankMe
(2,957 posts)mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)what's good for business is good for America or some ratfuckery like that. Just heard some boob on the tube call the stock market the "continuing trump rally." Wow!
yardwork
(61,650 posts)The Republicans would be making a lot of noise about this.
Why are we so NICE?!
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Pretending that she was a terrible candidate and we should have gone with Bernie
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)And simplistic view of the Democrats. There are a very few that think that way.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,714 posts)and surpass trump it would help. Why it's not happening in those states, i don't know.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)What noise would you expect? And what outcome would you expect to result from it?
yardwork
(61,650 posts)philosslayer
(3,076 posts)We're talking about Democrats here. What is it you want them to do? Please be specific.
yardwork
(61,650 posts)philosslayer
(3,076 posts)I don't know of a situation where Republicans won the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College
yardwork
(61,650 posts)Demand recounts. File legal actions. Lawsuits. Brooks Brothers riots. Refuse to concede. Make a lot of noise every single day to raise uncertainty, confusion, and doubt about whether or not Trump is the legitimate president. Get everybody all upset about the electoral college. Imply that it's a Chinese plot. Get hysterical. Say it's a constitutional crisis. Claim death threats. Go on TV every day with the latest popular vote count. Hire an army of people to spread lies and doubt on social media.
They did most of this in 2000, and it worked. My governor is doing it right now in North Carolina.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)I'm hearing and watching everything you list above already taking place.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)while Russia loves him.
Peeculiar Republican bullshit going down.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)For the Democrats to get off their asses and do something about this debacle. Maybe we will finally elect strong Democrats that will not start a debate with a compromised position just to seem 'bipartisan'. Maybe we will elect Democrats that will fight back against the Republicans. But, I doubt it.