Anonymous Coward User ID: 72272990 United States 12/18/2016 08:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is how popular electoral vote panned out (CA -vs- USA) Folks, w/o California, Trump win's election by big margins with both the popular and electoral vote... In this election, California had no Republican candidates on the ballot for senate or congress, many Republicans choose to stay home and not vote...
If you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes. And if California voted like every other Democratic state — where Clinton averaged 53.5% wins — Clinton and Trump end up in a virtual popular vote tie. (This was not the case in 2012. Obama beat Romney by 2 million votes that year, not counting California.)
Meanwhile, if you look at every other measure, Trump was the clear and decisive winner in this election.
Number of states won: Trump: 30 Clinton: 20 _________________ Trump: +10
Number of electoral votes won: Trump: 306 Clinton: 232 _________________ Trump: + 68
Ave. margin of victory in winning states: Trump: 56% Clinton: 53.5% _________________ Trump: + 2.5 points
Popular vote total: Trump: 62,958,211 Clinton: 65,818,318 _________________ Clinton: + 2.8 million
Popular vote total outside California: Trump: 58,474,401 Clinton: 57,064,530 _________________ Trump: + 1.4 million |