Drive By Media hit squad.
If we counted the “popular vote” alone, we’d still be recounting the 2000 tally county by county, looking for irregularities.
The difference between Al Gore and George W. Bush was 0.51% (just over half of one percent) of the vote.
On the other hand, there would have been no “problems” in Ohio.
The media is worried sick the Obambi is going to lose the battleground states. Much easier just to push the numbers (98% support in some communities). With the electoral vote, it doesn’t matter that one candidate got 80% or 52% of the vote in a state or city.
But even with that, California outside of the large cities votes conservative.
I am not a fan of the popular vote idea, but I have to admit that barely winning a state and getting all its Electoral Votes does seem disporportionate.