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Corsicana Pete wrote:
Dear Flagpole and the rest of the Liberals here:
Please quit your bellyaching and whining. The American people voted and they voted for President Trump to lead the country to great things. So enough. Just stop with the incessant immature rants. Flagpole said country over party. Well listen to him. Put the United States over the democratic party. We can all make this country great again. Deal?
The American people did not vote for Trump. HRC won the popular vote. Trump only won because of the archaic electoral college and Russian meddling. It’s not like Trump has a mandate.
Trump’s approval rating is at historical lows. He clearly only speaks for a minority of Americans.
America is great and will be great with or without Trump. A way to make it even better is to have truely democratically elected Presidents.
I’m not a Democrat. I just want a competent and mentally mature POTUS.
Okay bonehead. Here ya go and I'm sorry, but I have to say, do you research ANYTHING in life or just haphazardly hit random keys on the keyboard and hope to sound smart? Why do I ask? Well, the American People did speak as a whole, except for Liberal Loonies in California. You're welcome.
Clinton won California with illegal votes, lots of them.
She won California by 4.3 million votes more than Trump.
Take that one silly liberal state away and Trump wins the popular vote by 1.4 million.
You were totally fine with the system, till your corrupt girl lost, THEN you started talking about the process.
Here's your proof peabrain: Take out California, one state out of 50 and look what happens. She lost, deal with it.
If you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes. And if California voted like every other Democratic state — where Clinton averaged 53.5% wins — Clinton and Trump end up in a virtual popular vote tie. (This was not the case in 2012. Obama beat Romney by 2 million votes that year, not counting California.)
Meanwhile, if you look at every other measure, Trump was the clear and decisive winner in this election.
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Number of states won:
Trump: 30
Clinton: 20
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Trump: +10
Number of electoral votes won:
Trump: 306
Clinton: 232
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Trump: + 68
Ave. margin of victory in winning states:
Trump: 56%
Clinton: 53.5%
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Trump: + 2.5 points
Popular vote total:
Trump: 62,958,211
Clinton: 65,818,318
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Clinton: + 2.8 million
Popular vote total outside California:
Trump: 58,474,401
Clinton: 57,064,530
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Trump: + 1.4 million