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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
If there was no voter fraud, Trump might have won the popular vote too. As it stands right now, it looks like Hillary won the popular vote by around 450,000 votes. It is estimated that approximately 5% of illegal aliens vote. So that is around 800,000 people. They vote democrat by a margin of about 4-1. So if 8000,000 illegal aliens voted, and they voted for Hillary by a margin of 4-1, that would net Hillary an extra 480,000 votes. Without those illegal votes, Trump may have won the popular vote. Here is a Washington Post article about this subject:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...mber-election/ |
The whole discussion of someone winning the popular vote, but losing the election is myopic and trite, not only for the obvious reasons, but simply because
those were not the conditions under which the race is contested.
Take for example NY State Presidential Election Results:
Hillary Clinton Democrat 4,143,874 58.8%
Donald J. Trump Republican 2,640,570 37.5
Gary Johnson Libertarian 161,836 2.3
Jill Stein Green 99,895 1.4
The polls closed at 9:00pm, and by 9:01pm the had already called the state for Clinton.
Question - how many Republicans, knowing that their votes would have no impact, did not bother to vote?
Important to note that statewide, there are approx 11,500,000 active, registered voters.
Now, hypothetically, assume that they notified Republicans well in advance that this would be contested by Popular vote, then how many would have stayed home, now knowing their voices would actually be heard?
It is asinine to assume that the margin in victory is static. Yet, the MSM continues to drone on about it rather than report the facts.
Between California, New York, and Illinois alone, it is safe to assume numbers approaching 1 million Republicans didn't bother to vote because under the current electoral system and the state in which they reside, they know full well going in that their vote is meaningless.
In my opinion, were if the election were contested differently, Trump would have clearly won both the popular vote.