Tibs, because I grow weary of hearing
Hillary Clinton received three million more votes than Trump in 2016
without the proper contextual background to show what that even means, I did the work.
Hillary Clinton walked out of California with nearly 4.5 million more votes than Trump. THIS is why we desperately need the electoral college.
New York gave her another 1.75 million vote advantage. (Electoral College anyone?)
The other 3 bastions of democratic voting, WA, OR and CO added over 500,000, 200,000 and 100,000 to her advantage respectively.
Altogether these 5 states gave her nearly a 7 million vote advantage in the popular election. (6,883,628) What this tells us is that if we DIDN'T have the electoral vote, we wouldn't need a vote at all because ultimately New York and California have the population to elect our president every single time simply based on numbers.
Indeed, when you look at the actual numbers, Hillary lost HUGE in virtually every other state to the point that the mega states that gave her such a huge advantage were cut more than in half by the rest of the country voting against Clinton.
Don't come out with the whole "popular vote" crap. It's a HUGE red herring argument. As a country we NEED the electoral college and how it actually demonstrates the will of the people across the entire country.