Hillary’s projected popular vote lead is growing. Her percentage lead over Trump is projected to equal that of two very consequential presidential races of the past. And there are still many more millions of votes to count in the democratic strongholds of California, Washington, and New York. She is also on course to win the second most votes of any presidential candiate in the history of these United States.
David Leonhardt, a columnist for The New York Times, noted on Friday that if current trends hold, Clinton will have a 1.7-percentage-point popular vote lead over Trump. That means Clinton will have a larger margin of victory than Richard Nixon had over Hubert Humphrey in 1968 or John F. Kennedy had over Nixon in 1960. (Her edge is also larger than Al Gore’s popular vote victory over George W. Bush in 2000, though he too was stymied by an electoral college loss.)
Republicans disenfranchised millions of people with their stonewalling of Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court. The electoral college will be used to disenfranchise millions of American voters as well. Is this a real democracy? The Brexit vote-as tragic as it was-will have more credibility.
Paul Ryan and Rudolph Giuliani agree that Trump has a mandate, even as the national performance of their candidate indicates otherwise. Ryan denied this mandate to Obama even after Obama won the popular vote and the electoral college. We need to return the favor. Let’s show Ryan and Giuliani that a mandate is reserved for those candidates who win a majority of the vote.
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