Okay, let’s address this “Hillary might win the popular vote, isn’t that Electoral College situation just awful” thing head on.
No,
it’s not awful. It’s great, and it protects the importance of your
vote. It’s also uniquely American and demonstrates yet again the
once-in-creation brilliance of the Founding Fathers.
First of all, she’s probably not going to win the actual number of votes cast. She may win the number of votes counted, but not the votes cast.
States
don’t count their absentee ballots unless the number of outstanding
absentee ballots is larger than the state margin of difference. If
there is a margin of 1,000 votes counted and there are 1,300 absentee
ballots outstanding, then the state tabulates those. If the number of
outstanding absentee ballots wouldn’t influence the election results,
then the absentee ballots aren’t counted.
Who
votes by absentee ballot? Students overseas, the military,
businesspeople on trips, etc. The historical breakout for absentee
ballots is about 67-33% Republican. In 2000, when Al Gore “won” the
popular vote nationally by 500,000 votes and the liberal media screamed
bloody murder, there were 2 million absentee ballots in
California alone. A 67-33 breakout of those yields a 1.33- to
0.667-million Republican vote advantage, so Bush would have gotten a
667,000-vote margin from California’s uncounted absentee ballots alone!
So much for Gore’s 500,000 popular vote “victory.” (That was the
headline on the N.Y. Times, and it was the lead story on NBC Nightly News, right? No? You’re kidding.)
Getting
back to the “win the popular vote/lose the Electoral College” scenario:
Thank G-d we have that, or else California and N.Y. would determine
every election. Every time.
Read the full article:
Blog: Hillary wins the popular vote – not
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