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Originally Posted by thin_slicing
You are missing the point of what I am saying. If popular vote was the deciding factor in a presidential election the campaign strategy would be completely different.
Therefore the amount of votes each candidate would get would be different.
I'm not saying that means Trump would of won the popular vote, he may still of lost, but your logic does not hold up.
Trump's thought is the bolded: that'd he'd have spent time campaigning in CA, NY, and the like in an attempt to increase total votes, when under the electoral system he completely disregarded these states.
The right has taken this and run with it as if it's confirmed fact that he'd have won the popular vote via this method by doing this. This is obviously silly; for starters, spending a total of 15 or 20 hours in these states over the course of three or four appearances wouldn't have changed a couple of million votes, which is what he's going to end up losing by. Also, if he could've done this under a different system, then so could've she, in addition to hitting up big cities in guaranteed-R states like GA/TX/MO/IN that she'd otherwise ignore.