Clinton popular vote lead grows after election loss

Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton want a recount of the ballots in three states on the basis of experts’ statements with an eye toward ruling out the hacking of voting machines in the November 8 election, although her campaign has not yet issued a statement on the matter.

The growing margin far surpasses Al Gore’s lead over President George W. Bush in 2000, which was about 540,000 votes. Now two of those popular vote winners have lost in the Electoral College and thus the presidency.

Contrary to Mr. Robinson’s opinion, the Electoral College was a stroke of genius by the Founding Fathers because it guarded against a president being elected from only big population centers. It has also caused many to question the Electoral College and Democratic strategies for winning presidential elections.

Clinton may be on pace to win the popular vote by at least 1 million ballots, but it would take a monumental shift among pledged GOP electors to change the Electoral College balance in her favor.

Trump received 2,279,543 votes compared with Clinton’s 2,268,839, according to figures posted on the secretary of state’s website. However, they never expected any candidate to win a majority of the electoral vote.

Mr. Trump is unfit to serve. With perhaps 30 percent to 40 percent of the popular vote, that candidate would become president.

While unlikely, the petition has brought to light the popular distrust of a Trump administration. Given the existence of the electoral college, the argument about breadth provides some basis for weighting it in favor of smaller states, but that’s not the major source of unfairness.

Some Clinton followers simply can’t accept the fact that Trump was elected. I don’t think people appreciate the dangers of that idea. Instead, their wisdom – about whether to overrule ‘the people’or not – was to be free of political control yet guided by democratic values. The bill has already been passed into law in 11 states; states that control a total of 165 electoral votes.

The group have contacted high level Clinton staffers, including campaign chair John Podesta and general counsel Marc Elias, and made their case in a conference call, according to New York Magazine.