{"id":29872,"date":"2016-12-21T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29872"},"modified":"2016-12-21T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:55:57","slug":"about-the-popular-vote-vs-the-electoral-college-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29872","title":{"rendered":"About The Popular Vote vs. The Electoral College Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Investor’s Business Daily<\/a> posted an article about the final numbers from the 2016 Presidential Election<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports some amazing statistics:<\/p>\n

If you take California<\/a> out of the popular vote equation, then Trump<\/a> wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes<\/em>. And if California voted like every other Democratic<\/a> state \u2014 where Clinton<\/a> averaged 53.5% wins \u2014 Clinton and Trump end up in a virtual popular vote tie. (This was not the case in 2012. Obama<\/a> beat Romney<\/a> by 2 million votes that year, not counting California.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, if you look at every other measure, Trump was the clear and decisive winner in this election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Number of states won:<\/strong>
\nTrump: 30
\nClinton: 20
\n_________________
\nTrump: +10<\/em><\/p>\n

Number of electoral votes<\/a> won:<\/strong>
\nTrump: 306
\nClinton: 232
\n_________________
\nTrump: + 68<\/em><\/p>\n

Ave. margin of victory in winning states:<\/strong>
\nTrump: 56%
\nClinton: 53.5%
\n_________________
\nTrump: + 2.5 points<\/em><\/p>\n

Popular vote<\/a> total:<\/strong>
\nTrump: 62,958,211
\nClinton: 65,818,318
\n_________________
\nClinton: + 2.8 million<\/em><\/p>\n

Popular vote total outside California:<\/strong>
\nTrump: 58,474,401
\nClinton: 57,064,530
\n_________________
\nTrump: + 1.4 million<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a stunning example of the reason our Founding Fathers made the Electoral College part of the U.S. Constitution. Do you really want California determining who will be President?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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