Hillary Clinton

MADem

(135,425 posts) Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:28 PM Dec 2016

*Hillary Clinton Gets More Votes Than Any Candidate Ever***

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-clinton-gets-more-votes-150522324.html

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has garnered at least 65,527,625 votes in the 2016 presidential election, the most any presidential candidate has ever received and over 2.6 million more than the president-elect, who has received at least 62,851,436 votes, according to figures released Wednesday by The Cook Report, a nonpartisan election analysis organization. Clinton now has a margin of more than two percent of the popular vote majority than Trump, as states like Florida and California continue to submit ballots from primarily Democratic-held regions like Miami and Los Angeles....

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***********Hillary Clinton Gets More Votes Than Any Candidate Ever************* (Original Post) MADem Dec 2016 OP

K&R. nt TexasTowelie Dec 2016 #1

KnR sheshe2 Dec 2016 #2

uhm... JaneQPublic Dec 2016 #3

Hey, I'm just cuttin' and pastin' here! MADem Dec 2016 #4

Yeah, I think the writer is mistaken. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #5

Ya never know! MADem Dec 2016 #7

Yeah, I just don't think there are 4 million more votes out there. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #8

I'm hoping she gets there eventually! (nt) JaneQPublic Dec 2016 #6

Obama's vote total in 2008 is and will be by far higher than Clinton's. However.... George II Dec 2016 #12

This is wrong. Skinner Dec 2016 #9

It's YAHOO news....they're often wrong! MADem Dec 2016 #15

The original article was 'revised.' yallerdawg Dec 2016 #10

That's OK, it was still a cool headline---and like Judy Tenuta says "It could happen!" LOL! nt MADem Dec 2016 #11

Look at it this way, she's gotten more votes in a primary campaign than any other candidate.... George II Dec 2016 #13

The double-whammy, one-word headline fix! yallerdawg Dec 2016 #14

lowkey comment of the thread tbh...lmao JHan Dec 2016 #17

K&R! DemonGoddess Dec 2016 #16

K&R ismnotwasm Dec 2016 #18

TexasTowelie

(116,809 posts)

1. K&R. nt

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:40 PM

Dec 2016

sheshe2

(87,514 posts)

2. KnR

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:56 PM

Dec 2016

Love her. Now I am going to go cry for this countries loss.

JaneQPublic

(7,117 posts)

3. uhm...

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:56 PM

Dec 2016

Check Obama's vote totals below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008

MADem

(135,425 posts)

4. Hey, I'm just cuttin' and pastin' here!

Reply to JaneQPublic (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:58 PM

Dec 2016

Also, the writer says "at least" and states there's more to come, so....

TwilightZone

(28,833 posts)

5. Yeah, I think the writer is mistaken.

Reply to MADem (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:07 AM

Dec 2016

She's likely going to catch Obama's 2012 total. She's not going to reach his 2008 one.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

7. Ya never know!

Reply to TwilightZone (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:13 AM

Dec 2016

In addition Clinton’s percentage lead of 2.0 points puts her in sight of surpassing an 11th elected president’s victory margin. Clinton’s widening popular vote gap over Trump is already greater than the winning margin posted by 10 previous United States presidents who actually assumed the office, including John F. Kennedy in 1960, Richard M. Nixon in 1968, and George W. Bush in 2000.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3773607/national-popular-vote-2016-joe-biden-christopher-suprun-are-electors-required-follow-electoral-college-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/#R36aiIG00URz7HEZ.99

TwilightZone

(28,833 posts)

8. Yeah, I just don't think there are 4 million more votes out there.

Reply to MADem (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:23 AM

Dec 2016

I could be wrong.

JaneQPublic

(7,117 posts)

6. I'm hoping she gets there eventually! (nt)

Reply to MADem (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:09 AM

Dec 2016

George II

(67,782 posts)

12. Obama's vote total in 2008 is and will be by far higher than Clinton's. However....

Reply to JaneQPublic (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 02:23 PM

Dec 2016

....the votes are still being counted and she's trailing his 2012 total by a mere 400,000 at this time.

Still and all, her total is higher than any other Presidential candidate, including her opponents this year, in the history of the country except for Obama's in 2008 and possibly his numbers in 2012.

Considering the widespread resistance to her candidacy by both republicans AND Democrats, for many simply because she is a woman, that vote count is highly impressive.

Skinner

(63,645 posts)

9. This is wrong.

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:14 AM

Dec 2016

Obama 2008: 69,498,516 votes. (source)

MADem

(135,425 posts)

15. It's YAHOO news....they're often wrong!

Reply to Skinner (Reply #9)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 10:52 AM

Dec 2016

But it's CLOSE.....

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

10. The original article was 'revised.'

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:34 AM

Dec 2016

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has garnered at least 65,527,625 votes in the 2016 presidential election, over 2.6 million more than the president-elect, who has received at least 62,851,436 votes, according to figures released Wednesday by The Cook Report, a nonpartisan election analysis organization. Clinton now has a margin of more than two percent of the popular vote majority than Trump, as states like Florida and California continue to submit ballots from primarily Democratic-held regions like Miami and Los Angeles.

http://www.ibtimes.com/latest-2016-popular-vote-election-results-clinton-leads-trump-26-million-margin-grows-2457151