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longweekend58 wrote on Jan 11 th, 2017 at 2:57pm: AuntieM wrote on Jan 11 th, 2017 at 1:54pm: Sorry, but no, the Clinton Syndicate didn't wood anyone's arse in the popular vote. She actually had less votes than Obsma did in 2012, despite a larger voter pool.
From the Atlantic:
As of Thursday, ballot counts collected by the Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections show Clinton received fewer votes than Obama did in 87 percent of U.S. counties
Without a few counties in New York and California, Trump won most of the country. There are 3,141 counties in the United States. Like him or not, Trump won 3,084 of them.
People just hated Clinton more than they hated Trump.
And then there is this...
There were officially 14 voter fraud cases this year, 60,000 felons in Virginia being pardoned in time to vote, more than 1,000 illegal voters on the rolls in three Virginia counties and the troubling statistic of California's L.A. County as the repository for the most provisional ballots—40%—cast in the country.
The Election Integrity Project tells Independent Journal Review that 'voter impersonation' is easy and happens all the time.
Now, retired ICE special agent Claude Arnold has the answer to the question of whether illegal aliens vote in elections.
He told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly that he's worked in six states, arrested at least 1,000 illegal immigrants during his career and found that most of them had voter registration cards. He claimed that about 10% of them actually voted.
Arnold told O'Reilly:
“I routinely encountered people with voter registration cards. And as a part of my interview with them when they're arrested, I would ask them do you or have you voted? And often I would get the answer yes. So, that's not just anecdotal there are probably close to 100 people that did that in my career.”
The 'Motor Voter' law requires that all people receiving driver's licenses be offered voter registration cards. After 9/11, some states stopped giving licenses to illegal immigrants, though most have now reverted back to giving them out.[/id]
You cant seriously believe that a person who lost the popular vote by a huge amount still managed to win almost all of the counties? I know Trump supporters are bozos, but surely that must stretch credulity [i]even for youanyone who challenges longweekend's narrative. Here, cupcake....another source -- this one reliably corporatist and using words simple enough even for you... Time...
See a Map That Shows Exactly How Donald Trump Won
Zeke J Miller @ZekeJMiller Chris Wilson @chriswilsondc Dec. 1, 2016
Of the 3,112 counties for which there is county-level data, 2,728 shifted toward the GOP, 383 shifted Democratic, and 1—Barrow County, Georgia—stayed exactly the same.
The counties where Clinton gained on Obama occurred in much larger counties, where a median of 75,554 people showed up to vote in 2016. The median for the 2,728 Republican-gaining counties is 9,905.
Shifts in partisan preference do not necessarily mean the county swapped its overall support from one party to the other. While Trump received considerably less support than Mitt Romney in Utah, for example, he still managed to win 27 of 29 counties in the reliably Republican state.
Overall, he won 2,622 predominantly small counties while Clinton won 490, most of which were much more populous. (Those figures may shift very slightly since some states take a long time to certify their results.) Still, the shifts were large enough for a number of pickups. At present count, Trump snagged 220 counties that voted for President Obama in 2012, while Clinton poached 17 that went for Mitt Romney.
I can't yet post links, but I'm sure you're a bright enough boy to use the title, author and date I provided from the header, to go access the article yourself. There is a really useful little interactive graphic that breaks down the vote by county. Particularly with four million provisional ballots (people without proof of ID or who weren't registered to vote that day), California represents a large pool of voters, that's true. Clinton took the largest, most densely populated urban counties on the coasts (basically New York and CA). The rest of that map, with the exception of the area around Las Vegas and some of Utah, is pretty solidly red. These areas are also extraordinarily heavily populated with illegal aliens, with whom Trump is particularly unpopular. I think we can all understand why. According to a 2014 Pew study, illegal aliens accounted for 3.5 percent of the U.S. population of nearly 316 million in 2012, the share varied from less than 1 percent in 10 states to a high of 7.6 percent in Nevada. California and Texas, each at 6.3 percent, had the next-highest shares of people living there illegally. 10.2% of Nevada's workforce are illegal aliens, 69% of whom are Mexican.The Public Policy Institute of California reports that about 10% of the state's workforce are illegal aliens, and about 13% of California K-12 school children have an illegal alien parent. It stands to reason these areas would have gone to Clinton. In the end, the US is not a democracy, it's a constitutional republic, and the electoral college was created to keep the residents of the cities from controlling outcomes of all elections and disenfranchising the rest of the country. It is what it is
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