Something worth remembering, posted here in 2016 in this thread Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: The 2016 Election.
Lex Anteinternet: The 2016 Election
Lex Anteinternet: The 2016 Election: I didn't see that coming. . . like all of the rest of the pundits. It's been a wild election year. Yesterday, Donald Trum...The popular vote:
Trump: 47%: 59,611,678
Clinton: 48% 59,814,018
Johnson: 3% 4,058,500
Stein: 1% 1,213,103
Others: .07% 802,119
A disappointing performance for Stein, given that she was trying to riff of the popular Sanders. Not very impressive for Johnson either, whom some thought would do well. That's probably at least 3,000,000 votes off of Trump, however.
Trump becomes President with a minority of votes cast. Clinton took more, albeit only 200,000 more. An example, perhaps, of every vote counting, or not, depending upon your view.
Trump lost the popular vote, and had the votes that were spent on Johnson or even Steim. . . yes Stein, been applied elsewhere. . . .
Anyhow, somehow it's been forgotten that the antiquated Electoral College is all, and I do mean all, that gave Trump the Presidency in the first place. Those wondering how he could have lost. . . could recall he lost the popular vote last time.
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