Hillary Clinton Now Leads by 1 Million in History-Making Popular Vote Total

[Tom Joad]

What a bummer for the bots.

This one has got to hurt.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/popula...ction-results/

Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump by more than 1 million popular votes, as of November 15. Clinton’s growing lead has renewed calls in some corners to abolish the Electoral College.

The Cook Political Report and Dave Wasserman have compiled a continually updated popular vote tracker. Both candidates are still gaining votes as states count absentee and provisional ballots, millions of which were still uncounted after the election, especially in California.

Here are the updated popular vote totals as of November 15:

Clinton: 62,318,079
Trump: 61,166,063

That means Clinton now leads the popular vote by 1,152,016 votes and 47.8% to 46.9%.

[nailer]

At least she made some history.

The Electoral College needs to go and Senate seats need to be redistributed based on citizen population.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by nailer

At least she made some history.

The Electoral College needs to go and Senate seats need to be redistributed based on citizen population.

I agree with that.

[CarlV]

What, no six pack of you tube links?

[Tom Joad]

This makes 2 out of the last 5 elections where the will of the people has been thwarted by this obsolete and fundamentally unfair system. It's got to go.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hilla...ry?id=43667918

It's been nearly two weeks since the November 8 general election, but the results have not remained static as ballots continue to be counted.

While the number of votes for both president-elect Donald Trump and his former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton continue to increase, the gap is widening, with Clinton expanding her popular vote lead over Trump.

According to new figures released by The Associated Press on Saturday, Clinton received more than 1.5 million votes than her Republican rival.

As of Saturday, Clinton had received 63,390,669 votes, while Trump received 61,820,845 votes -- a difference of 1,569,824, according to The AP.

Rounded off to whole numbers, that translates to 48 percent vs. 47 percent.

[ZeroJunk]

If you look at what is required to change the constitution it unlikely to ever happen.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

If you look at what is required to change the constitution it unlikely to ever happen.

None the less it is such an outrage that if it can not be done through legal means, then I am of the opinion that violent ones would be warranted.

[JCricket]

I think I understand the reason why the electoral college was created and is used. It is to attempt to balance the "voting power" of one state against another. Is this correct? If I understand correctly it is to give states like wyoming or the dakotas a voice in the election. Without it, california and the other states would make their voice mute.

This doesn't make sense to me. Can someone please jump in and give a lucid explanation of the purpose of the electoral college?

[Pio1980]

City mouse/ country mouse?

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[Tom Joad]

I totally disgusted with this whole process. This entire election season has been one insult after another to my sense of fair play.

The entire thing has been rotten and rigged.

First the Democrats rigged the primary process for Hillary. Right off the bat they assign her a 400 point lead in undemocratic superdelegates, setting the narrative in the minds of the voters that she has an insurmountable lead that can't be overcome. Then the media colludes with them by reporting that "insurmountable" lead before every primary.

Then, after she "wins" the nomination, the media pivots and goes on a non stop rampage to destroy Donald Trump.

Finally I guess karma catches up and she's tripped up by the grossly unfair electoral college. Make no mistake, I'm happy she's not going to be President, but I abhor the way it came about.