California certifies its results: Clinton 8,753,788 (61.7%), Trump 4,483,810 (31.6%), Others 943,997 (6.7%). Largest Dem margin since 1936.Hillary!'s margin in the popular vote (a meaningless tally) comes entirely from one state.
Americans are the products of the worst school system in the developed world so most of us aren't getting this. The national popular vote is meaningless. Now before one starts crying about democracy, its working fine here. Hillary! romped in CA and the state's 55 EVs are being democratically allocated to Hillary!, aren't they.
I think of California more as a part of Mexico now, but whatever.
This is why we have the electoral college. Back in 1789 the Founding Fathers worried that a few big states, back then NY and VA, would dominate national politics. They needed to protect the smaller states for the encroaching tentacles of the big ones, hence the electoral college.
Sorry folks, a couple of blue metro areas don't get to dictate to the rest of the country.
There are some blue states that are passing laws delegated their EV's to the popular vote winner. That will last just as long as it takes for Republican to win the popular vote + the electoral college including, say Maryland's electoral votes. It will be freaking hilarious, in the same way that Harriet Reid killed the filibuster of presidential appointments.....
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