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Hillary Clinton is now 2.7 million votes ahead of Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton is now 2.7 million votes ahead of Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton has 2.7 million more votes than Donald Trump, despite losing the presidential election, and the number is expected to rise. Ms Clinton is on track to get more votes than president Barack Obama did in 2012. He won 65.9 million, and she is only about 400,000 votes behind him.
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I'm not sure if this makes me happy or sad.
I'm hoping that it starts a conversation about the electoral system. I am not a fan of first past the post.
I feel like people said the same thing after GWB was elected. Two wars later and nothing has changed.
That was much more narrow electoral victory, GWB was actually fairly competent, and there wasn't a state that adopted ranked choice voting. I'm still not confident, because a change won't really benefit the two parties, but will remain hopeful, even though I know it's probably going to take more than this to cultivate a major change in the system.
Forgive me, this past month has made me very sad and cynical.
It is very hard not to become cynical after this cycle, if we weren't there already. No worries. :-)
Let's not stay cynical, though, that will lead us further down the rabbit hole.
The electoral college caused her to lose, not FPTP.
FPTP has given us the two-party system.
OK but Clinton is advantaged by the two party system.
I'm aware. And ... ?
FPTP and the electoral college are different problems is all I'm saying.
That's beside the point. I advocated for a discussion of the entire system.
K well that wasn't clear given the context and language.
I'm just astounded that there are still votes being counted a month after the election O.o
IKR! I thought our technology was better, considering they call the result the same day.
Yay for that moral victory I guess. 😧
I'm still wondering why the fuck it takes so long to get a vote tally.
I read somewhere that it's due to CA's very liberal voting policies. CA's government goes out of its way to ensure that your vote was counted. So, if you marked something wrong, they won't toss the ballot, but they try to fix it.
But, I don't know how true that is, etc.
I'm so glad that trump won.
It doesn't matter really. We use the electoral college, not the popular vote