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And voters in two or three counties gave Clinton the popular vote.

• allemagne 10y ago
  Would that mean there was no way Trump could have lost? No. It is unclear how using counties as a metric is useful. It would be quite significant if Clinton won the equivalent of the population of LA county over Trump.
  • talmand 10y ago
    >> It is unclear how using counties as a metric is useful. It's about as useful as referring to the popular vote in a contest that clearly established beforehand that it would not be considered.
    • allemagne 10y ago
      The popular vote is a relevant example of how the contest was not inevitable. More people voted for Hillary than for Trump... that's not what wins the election, but it's not meaningless to a democratic society. Counties, however, are completely arbitrary. Should winning the least populous 51% of counties matter to anyone? You're using it as a convenient way to sidestep the obvious implication of losing the popular vote.