Hillary Clinton Received More Votes Than Any Losing Candidate In US History

No, I’m not talking about his baseless, unfounded accusations that millions of illegal immigrants cast ballots in the presidential election, tipping the popular vote in favor of Democrat Hillary Clinton. “He’s a former president, we have enormous respect for him and his legacy as it were, but we also have to point out that Donald Trump had a very broad coalition when he ran the tables among the same kind of democratic union households that Bill Clinton won and Hillary Clinton lost”. “And it treats every single voter in our country equally”.

They’re decided by Electoral College votes, based on the victor of the popular vote in each state. But you can’t suddenly switch to another mechanism for determining the outcome after the race is over, any more than you can decide after the buzzer that the Stanley Cup will be awarded to the team that scored the highest number of goals in the seven-game final even though its opponent won the series four games to three.

The best reform plan I’ve seen comes from the aptly-named National Popular Vote, an interstate compact that has been enacted by 11 states worth 165 votes in the Electoral College.

“This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency”, she said in a statement. Therefore, they introduced the concept of the Electoral College.

Kerr sponsored similar legislation in 2009 when he was a member of the state House of Representatives. The votes cast for Greeley were not counted due to a House resolution passed regarding the matter, according to the Electoral College website.

AP’s popular vote count does not include finalized results for third-party candidates and write-in vote. That said, the small-state complaint has mathematical validity in certain instances.

After the call, Sullivan and Baca exchanged emails: “We all share a sense of urgency”, Sullivan said.

Sen. Mimi Stewart, a Democrat, said Wednesday that her bill was filed in response to this year’s election, in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College despite receiving almost 2.9 million fewer votes nationwide. The mythical and actual electoral college vote percentages are virtually identical.

Second, congressional districts were drawn based on the 2010 census, and lots of people have moved to the Lone Star and Sunshine States in the past six years, creating a new layer of under-representation.

Politifact rated the claim completely false, given the administration announcement a month before Election Day, and the discussion of Russian cyber attacks during the presidential debates. Oh, and 62 percent of white working class women voted for Trump. The GOP now holds numerical majorities in 33 legislatures.

This election shined a bright light on the Electoral College and if you’re a little state, then you appreciate the safeguard it affords.

As we found during the campaign, Republicans and Democrats are more likely to discuss the election with people on their side than with those on the other side.

The useless California and NY factoid cropped up after Trump officially lost the national popular vote by more than 2 or roughly 2%.

Two minutes later, Trump tweeted that he “would have done even better in the election, if that is possible, if the victor was based on popular vote – but would campaign differently”. According to National Popular vote, in 2016 there were 154 Republicans who sponsored the measures and 162 Democrats.