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Popular vote is stupid. As long as the electoral college decides the election so many people know there votes are useless if they live in a particular state. If you're Democrat you probably aren't too excited about voting in Texas. Same for a Republican in California. So it's not exactly accurate outlook.
This is obviously irrelevant to the outcome of the election, but it is very relevant to our discussion on this forum. Clinton looks likely to win the popular vote. Thus, Donald Trump didn't actually convince more people to support him than Clinton did (if the popular vote projection holds). Granted, he motivated a large portion of the country, but the narrative that Clinton had less support than Trump is simply false.
I always think it's funny how people bring up the popular vote win or loss when their candidate loses.
Always? How many times do you think this has happened?
To be clear, I'm in no way arguing that Trump's victory (assuming he wins the EC) is any less legitimate. I am simply making a claim about the conclusions we as spectators are drawing from this election. The fact that HRC may in fact get more votes is relevant to our discussion about the election dynamics.
Trump is likely looking at the lowest percentage of support for any winning President since 1992 (Bill Clinton), and that was a peculiar election with a major third-party candidate (Perot). My point is simply that we shouldn't conclude too much about Trump having an incredibly high amount of support. My guess is that probably 20-25% of the country would describe themselves as serious Trump supporters. The next 20-25% would describe themselves as either Republicans who view him as the lesser of two evils or independents who hate Hillary.
What does that mean he really didn't win because he didn't win by a landslide? Polls said he was going to lose by a large margin just shows you how wrong most polls were.
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