Looks like the lead might extend to 3 million..

[JHan]

Just heard on Lawrence O Donnell , pop vote lead is 2.8 million.

Yes it matters.

#MinorityPresident

[lonestarnot]

1. And they are not going to sit back and watch this country be taken over by the Ruskies without their

having fired a shot.

[AgadorSparticus]

2. Good God. 2.8 million....that is just crazy! #stillwithher

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. Kick

[Calculating]

4. The EC is a joke

And I firmly believe it will be the doom of our nation if not repealed. A prosperous nation cannot be maintained by giving disproportionate voting power to the most ignorant and uneducated members of the population.

[davidn3600]

8. Gallup says Americans are evenly divided on electoral college. It's never going away.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' support for keeping the Electoral College system for electing presidents has increased sharply. Weeks after the 2016 election, 47% of Americans say they want to keep the Electoral College, while 49% say they want to amend the Constitution to allow for a popular vote for president. In the past, a clear majority favored amending the U.S. Constitution to replace the Electoral College with a popular vote system.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/198917/americans-support-electoral-college-rises-sharply.aspx

The solid red states, the battleground states, and most small states are never going to give up the EC and yield more power to NY and CA.

[roamer65]

10. In 20 years, NY's seats will be in a new Canadian parliament building in Ottawa.

Same goes for New England.

If there aren't changes to our electoral process, that is what will happen.

[Calculating]

12. I can actually see something like that happening

Our system right now is a mess. You have small rural states holding the big economic power houses of the country hostage via this archaic electoral system. How long until the big boys get tired of playing a rigged game, take their ball and leave?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. So how did this happen? Trying to wrap my brain around it

did she win more PVs in states that she lost the EV than usual? Has anyone calculated what caused this situtation?

[Retrograde]

6. Electoral College gives more weight to small-pop states

All states get a minimum of 3 electoral votes. So a state like Wyoming (total population: fewer than the number of registered voters in Santa Clara County, CA) gets proportionately more representation than big states such as California, New York and Texas.

Almost all states have a winner-take-all system for awarding electoral votes. Clinton beat Trump by more than 4 million votes in California, but because our electors don't count as much as those from the small, rural states, she only got 55 electoral votes. She would have gotten the same number if she had beaten him by 400 votes. Similarly in Michigan: Trump won by a handful of popular votes but got all that state's electoral votes.

[Cha]

7. Yeah, it does matter. #MajorityVotes

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. not surprised. :)

Happy!

[Dem2]

11. 2.1% lead

Embarrassing, and now we have our own agencies saying the commies helped elect him?

[pressbox69]

13. So the smaller percentage of the people rule the larger percentage of the people...

...wasn't that the knock on the Soviet Union?