2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Wow - the concern trolls were right. [View all]Fla Dem
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Hillary Clinton received the 3rd largest popular vote in US History and they are still counting.
2016...Hillary Clinton........65,844,610.....Donald Trump........62,979,636
2012...Barack Obama........65,899,660.....Mitt Romney..........60,932,152
2008...Barack Obama........69,456,897.....John McCain..........59,934,814
2004...George W. Bush .....62,040,610.....John Kerry.............59,028,439
2000...Al Gore.................50,999,897.....George W. Bush......50,456,002
1996...Bill Clinton.............45,590,703.....Bob Dole...............37,816,307
1992...Bill Clinton.............44,909,326.....George H.W. Bush...39,103,882
1988...George H.W. Bush...48,886,597.....Michael Dukakis......41,809,476
HRC received 2,864,974 more votes than Trump and only 55,050 fewer votes than Pres Obama in 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president
http://2012election.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004332
Now let us take a look at the impact of the Jill Stein / Gary Johnson vote.
...........................2016...............2012
Gary Johnson......4,360,778.........1,275,923
Dr. Jill Stein........1,356,943............469,015
TOTAL................5,717,721.........1,744,938
Stein and Johnson increase in votes over 2012 = 3,972783
We can assume or not, that a good chunk of the increase in the Stein/Johnson votes were 2012 Barack Obama votes tuned into protest votes against Hillary Clinton. The 4 million vote difference in the Stein/Johnson vote 2012/2016 would not have allowed HRC to best Obama's 2008 total, which was a historical election, but it would have far exceeded his 2012 vote.
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2012&f=0&off=0
I'll leave you to form your own opinions on who allowed Donald J Trump to win this election.