11-09-2016, 10:34 AM
(11-09-2016, 09:06 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: the NYT projects that she will win the popular vote by 1.1% once California is fully reported (currently only 65%).
Last night, when the election was called, she was down nearly 1 million. She's currently up 110k.
Nearly 1 million more Americans will likely have voted for Clinton and she will have still lost.
The issue I see with a President winning 'By popular vote" is that even the "popular vote" isn't exactly entirely accurate. The "popular vote" doesn't actually account for who every American would want as president of the US in regard to the two top candidates. This is because the popular vote doesn't take into account all of the Americans who voted for parties that weren't republican or democratic. So while the "popular vote" might account for a lot of Americans, it doesn't account for all of them, and that's the issue I see with going by a popular vote because anyone who votes independently still has a vote that "doesn't count".
