It's official: Clinton swamps Trump in popular vote by 2.9 million.

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(CNN)More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history.

The Democrat outpaced President-elect Donald Trump by almost 2.9 million votes, with 65,844,954 (48.2%) to his 62,979,879 (46.1%), according to revised and certified final election results from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Clinton's 2.1% margin ranks third among defeated candidates, according to statistics from US Elections Atlas. Andrew Jackson won by more than 10% in 1824 but was denied the presidency, which went to John Quincy Adams. In 1876, Samuel Tilden received 3% more votes than Rutherford B. Hayes, who eventually triumphed by one electoral vote.

Though the legitimacy of his victory has never come into serious doubt, Trump has repeatedly argued, usually via Twitter, that he would have won the popular vote, too, if that had been his focus.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-popular-vote-final-count/index.html

[mcar]

1. Landslide!

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. They are trying to diminish her pop vote win by saying "take calif out"....

And trump wins

[pnwmom]

6. And the answer to that is "take Texas out" and she'd have won the EC. n/t

[Girard442]

2. But...but...but... if we didn't have an Electoral College...

...cows would be underrepresented.

[Truth321]

3. If ifs and buts were candy and nuts

Everyday would be Christmas

[Hekate]

4. If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a choochoo train....

But somehow I think that lacks relevance to the fact that Hillary WON what the entire world except the US calls "the vote."

As we sink slowly into banana-republic status, we might want to try to fix that. With the EC the way it is, we actually have to move the Dems right, not left, to capture those states -- and we probably don't want to do that. So now what?

[JI7]

7. Clinton won the People's Votes . Trump won the outdated rigged system with the help of Putin