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Originally Posted by finnbow
I think all the fascination and rumination over the popular votes misses two things. First, of course, is that it doesn't count. Second is that if it were a popular vote, both campaigns would have been run quite differently with different results (that we will never know).
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You're right on both counts.
There is no way to determine how the popular vote would have gone without the electoral college. Both campaigns would have employed radically different strategies.
I didn't fully realize the difference between being in a swing state and a safe state until I moved from Florida to Alabama.
Every election year Central Florida was like a political carnival.
But this year in Alabama it seemed like there wasn't even an election going on.