{"id":36506,"date":"2019-07-06T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36506"},"modified":"2019-07-06T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T16:10:45","slug":"36506","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36506","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Received in my email today:<\/p>\n<p>The United States&#8217; Founders created the<br \/>\nElectoral College to ensure the STATES and <em>ALL<\/em> AMERICANS\u00a0 are FAIRLY represented.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the Nation?\u00a0 Do they truly represent all states and our entire Nation?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>3,141 counties<\/strong> in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump won 3,084 of them.<\/strong><br \/>\nClinton won <strong>57.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are<strong> 62<\/strong> counties in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>Trump won <strong>46 <\/strong>of them.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton won <strong>16.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the 5 counties that encompass NYC<\/em>, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan,<br \/>\nRichmond &amp; Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes<br \/>\nthan Trump. (Clinton won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Therefore these 4 MEGA counties in New York City alone, more than accounted for Clinton\u00a0winning the popular vote of the entire country.<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Should a Nation that encompasses almost 4 million square miles,<\/p>\n<p>be ruled by those who live in one small corner of the vast nation&#8211;a mere 319 square miles?<\/p>\n<p><em>Should this small section of the country dictate a National Election?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Should large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA) \u00a0speak for the entire Nation?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received in my email today: The United States&#8217; Founders created the Electoral College to ensure the STATES and ALL AMERICANS\u00a0 are FAIRLY represented. Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the Nation?\u00a0 Do they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7850,2221,1097,739,669,849,8365,3970,844,125,10559,2079,1414],"class_list":["post-36506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-chicago","tag-democrat","tag-election","tag-electoral-college","tag-los-angeles","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york-city","tag-popular-vote","tag-queens","tag-richmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36509,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36506\/revisions\/36509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}