No, McCain and Romney Didn’t Win More Votes than Trump

Speaking publicly was not easy, Clinton said, but she was inspired by the people she had met through the organization who had overcome poverty and other challenges.

“In Rhode Island, for example, if you voted for Barack Obama, you voted for the state’s four Democratic electors”. The Cook Political Report updated popular vote totals can be accessed at this link.

Clinton is on pace to win the popular vote. Trump has 290 Electoral College votes and Clinton has 232, with MI still undecided. The former presidential candidate said that it was hard for her to make it out here so soon after her crushing loss. But exit polls showed voters were looking for an outsider who could shake up Washington, and for many, Trump fit that mold better than Clinton.

Boxer’s proposal would do away with the Electoral College system – established in part to put states on a level playing field when it came to selecting the president – and replace it with a popular vote system.

“The presidential election happens in two phases”. That was good enough to give Nixon 301 electoral votes.

The Change.org petition said Mr Trump was “unfit to serve” and that Ms Clinton should be president as she won at least one million votes than her rival in the popular vote. Because the United States is a federal republic now with 50 different states, the Electoral College ensures that “the sense of the majority should prevail” by guaranteeing the interests of smaller, less-populated states are not overwhelmed by the larger, more-populated ones.

But what if California’s vote was in line with all the other Democratic states, where Clinton beat Trump 53.5% to 40.2%? Your vote would count. Clinton is expected to win those remaining ballots by 15.8 points.

“This is the electoral process we have, and it’s totally within my rights”, he said. Each state, except ME and Nebraska, casts all its votes for the victor of the popular vote in their state.

So, in this case, Clinton won by big margins and millions of votes in the typically liberal states like NY and California but lost by much smaller margins in swing states like North Carolina and Ohio. Seven states have only three. So she gets more votes, but Trump wins the Electoral College tally and the presidency.

When she started her career in public service, Clinton said she never considered the possibility of holding the office of president.

And Edelman noted two distinctions Clinton holds as a woman: the first to be the nominee of a major political party in the United States and the first to win the popular vote in a US presidential election – even if Trump prevailed in the electoral college. For more information on what the electoral college is and how the system works – The University of California Davis has published an electoral college brief through its California History-Social Science Project. In other words, these nine states are 70 times more powerful than the other 41 (which collectively had a 1.4 percent chance of determining the winner) combined.