[Newsbot]

Title: Hillary Clinton's Popular Vote Lead Over Donald Trump Now Exceeds 1.5 Million Votes
Category: Political
Posted By: andyt
Date: 2016-11-20 09:15:10

[N_Fiddledog]

I wonder if there's anything to this below. I think it originates at American Thinker.

"States don't count their absentee ballots unless the number of outstanding absentee ballots is larger than the state margin of difference. If there is a margin of 1,000 votes counted and there are 1,300 absentee ballots outstanding, then the state tabulates those. If the number of outstanding absentee ballots wouldn't influence the election results, then the absentee ballots aren't counted.

Who votes by absentee ballot? Students overseas, the military, businesspeople on trips, etc. The historical breakout for absentee ballots is about 67-33% Republican. In 2000, when Al Gore "won" the popular vote nationally by 500,000 votes and the liberal media screamed bloody murder, there were 2 million absentee ballots in California alone. A 67-33 breakout of those yields a 1.33 to 0.66 million Republican vote advantage, so Bush would have gotten a 667,000-vote margin from California's uncounted absentee ballots alone! So much for Gore's 500,000 popular vote "victory." (That was the headline on the N.Y. Times, and it was the lead story on NBC Nightly News, right? No? You're kidding.)"

[bootlegga]

What difference does it make? Popular vote doesn't decide who wins, the electoral college does.

To me the alarming number is not the popular vote, but the hundred million or do Americans who DIDN'T vote.

[martin14]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Popular vote doesn't decide who wins, the electoral college does.

Exactly.

More whining and bitching from the losers. More tears, they are delicious

[fifeboy]

martin14 martin14:

bootlegga bootlegga:

Popular vote doesn't decide who wins, the electoral college does.

Exactly.

More whining and bitching from the losers. More tears, they are delicious :Ok, thanks

Kind of like Canada eh! Popular vote don't matter but won seats do.

[ShepherdsDog]

It worked for Harper and then it worked PM Tater Tot.

[Freakinoldguy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

It worked for Harper and then it worked PM Tater Tot.

Therefore, we as voters must be much more politically enlightened than our southern neighbours.

Although, on the plus side our system doesn't end up eating itself every couple of years rendering our leadership and gov't completely powerless.