2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumStill counting votes, but Hillary is less than 1% behind Obama's 2012 results,
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despite all the millions of Democrats affected by the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 -- through registration purging, new ID requirements, and cutbacks in polling stations and early voting days.
About 2/3 of 1% (about 450K) -- and with 233,000 votes still left to count in CA and an unknown number left in NJ and New York.
Chances are great that she'll end up within one-half of one percent of Obama's total.
Yes, she lost the electoral college. But if I hear one more person say she wasn't popular enough or likable enough, or inspiring enough . . .
We all need to remember that she inspired more than 2,600,000 voters more than DT -- a diverse group of flesh and blood voters who should matter just as much as the voters in the Electoral College's swing states -- and we can't let THEM ever forget that.
HE'S CLAIMING A MANDATE. HE'S LYING. THE VOTERS VOTED FOR HER.
Hillary Clinton 65,462,476 (so far)
Barack Obama 65,915,795 (final)
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)HOW!?!?!?!?
Hekate
(94,789 posts)...and shake them by the shoulders until their heads rattle.
Anyone who calls themselves a Democrat should not have the nerve to start any conversation about her loss without this disclaimer: SHE WON.
pnwmom
(109,578 posts)CentralMass
(15,546 posts)Hekate
(94,789 posts)Cha
(305,481 posts)The m$m and everyone else with an agenda can pooh pooh this.. but it means that 65 Million People liked what Hillary had to say.. and they all weren't the new buzz word "elitists", either.
Thank you, pnwmom!
spooky3
(36,224 posts)Is about 500k less than that reported by Wikipedia. If that's correct she's very likely to pass his total.
pnwmom
(109,578 posts)The FEC reports the same # as Wikipedia.
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/federalelections2012.pdf
spooky3
(36,224 posts)pnwmom
(109,578 posts)Thanks!