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2016 Postmortem

triron

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2. I did a quick calculation using these numbers

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Tue Jan 17, 2017, 12:41 AM

Jan 2017

Assuming the 39% or 36% actually voted for Clinton or Trump, Hillary would win popular vote by 52%-48% of Clinton/Trump voters or a 4% margin. But according to counted vote results she only won the popular vote by about 51.1% to 48.9% Clinton/Trump voters. I am excluding 3rd party candidates votes for simplicity. So apparently either a significant number who wanted Hillary to win didn't have their votes counted (or switched) or they just didn't vote. We are talking about approximately 2.5 million voters!

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ABC poll: only 36% of Americans wanted DT to win. [View all] pnwmom Jan 2017 OP

Which is 36% too many Farmgirl1961 Jan 2017 #1

I did a quick calculation using these numbers triron Jan 2017 #2

The election was held in November, the poll was taken in January mythology Jan 2017 #5

why is it that in polls, it's only the repugs who "don't want to admit" who they voted for? i have n TheFrenchRazor Jan 2017 #7

So 25% preferred other candidates or none. triron Jan 2017 #3

36% of the registered American voting public did NOT vote the shitgibbon pkdu Jan 2017 #4

but no... the election wasn't hacked at all... nt TheFrenchRazor Jan 2017 #6