Sure Hillary won CA with 55. NY with 29 (much of the state red but not NYC)
Take those 4 states I mentioned first and give them to Hillary instead
Final vote with Trump winning them
Trump 306
Clinton 232
Final vote if she'd won them
Trump 242
Clinton 296
Why bother campaining in MI or WI? She's gonna win them anyway, right? OR the voters there just said no thank you.
On election night PA was said to have put Trump over the top
She won Pittsburgh and Philly but much of the state was red, giving him a big margin of victory in those non-blue areas.
Eliminate the electoral college and you may as well eliminate the Senate. Why should Wyoming have the same amount of senators as California? (But the House makes up for it..as does the EC)
In 2000 Bush beat Gore in his home state, 51 to 47 per cent. That was 11 electoral votes
Final results
Gore 266
Bush 271
Had Gore won TN:
Gore 277
Bush 260
AP:
"Not only did Al Gore lose his home state of Tennessee, but he also lost the congressional district he represented for eight years. The 6th Congressional District he represented from 1976 to 1984 doesn’t have the same makeup today as it did 16 years ago, but if the votes in the 17 counties it once comprised were added up, George W. Bush would have 166,025 to Gore’s 140,992.
"That is an additional embarrassment to Gore, who had never lost an election in Tennessee until Tuesday. It is also another indicator of the state’s Republican shift in recent years. In Tennessee, Gore was considered a moderate until he started inching toward the national stage. Once an opponent of abortion and gun control, Gore now supports the right to choose and tighter restrictions on gun sales _ neither of which plays well in rural parts of the district he once called home.
"'Generally Gore just trended to the left, and I think Tennesseans want someone in the middle of the spectrum or a little to the right,' said Rep. Bill Jenkins, R-Tenn. 'He left Tennessee. Tennessee didn’t leave him.'"
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Even without Florida factored in, Gore lost because he lost his home state. That's the Electoral College. ("Gore got more!", screamed the libs.)
"This is what democracy looks like!"
No, this is what a REPUBLIC looks like.