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Originally Posted by einbert
So far:
President
Hillary Clinton 60,467,601 votes
Donald Trump 60,072,551 votes
Clinton is expected to end up with 1-2 million more votes than Trump after all votes are counted.
Senate (preliminary)
Democratic Senate Candidates 45.2 million votes
Republican Senate Candidates 39.3 million votes
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...-too/93598998/
House of Representatives
It's hard to say at this point for a couple of reasons, but it looks like this vote was within a couple of percentage points as well nationwide.
One, we elect President by electoral votes. So lettme help you there
Donald Trump: 306 votes
Hillary Clinton: 232 votes
You can't project popular vote to mean anything when the election isn't ran that way. It literally means nothing.
Two, the Senate numbers are asinine. You again realize that you are counting literally EVERY vote (6 million plus) in the People's Republic of California -- the state with highest population in the entire United States -- for the Democrats, right? Because the two candidates running were both Democrat right? Because no GOP candidate qualified in the primary.
Again doesn't matter, so let me help you with the math here
GOP: 52 Senators
Democrats: 46+2 Senators
You realize that LITERALLY the Constitution checks both the election of the President (electoral college) and the election of the Senators (each state gets 2 Senators regardless of population) against the tyranny of the majority right?
I know you are trying to make a point that the Democrats got more votes than the Republicans but you are making no point if you understand American history. Because you literally don't understand the bargain of the States, the Connecticut Compromise, when the Constitution was written. It was literally this bargain that checks the electoral power of California today.