Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost 3 million and still lost.
If Kamala wins the popular vote, how much does she have to win by to flip
the electoral college to her side?
Does it matter what states she wins in if the margins are low?
Depends fully on what states she wins
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It’s all about the handful of swing states, 2/3rds of the electoral votes are basically locked it. She might get a few from out of left field but that has yet to be seen
Take Nebraska, I can tell you right now we will give Kamala 1 electoral vote and the remaining 4 to Tump.
Edit: Anicdotal evidence
It doesn’t work that way.
There isn’t a single popular vote. There are 538 votes to be cast, votes distributed to the states based on the most recent census.
Each state then runs an election to determine how their vote is cast. More technically, you’re voting for a specific elector, but given faithless elector laws, it’s defacto a specific candidate.
Most states are all-or-nothing, whoever wins that state gets that state’s full vote count.
To win, it takes 270 electoral votes.
This is why battleground states are so important. Hillary may have gotten more votes nationally, but none of the elections were in fact national. She ignored key battleground states and arrogantly expected to just win them.
Hillary was, and remains, an arrogant fool. Not, it must be said, in the same way Trump is.
This is the biggest issue and wool over the eyes of American voters. We only focus on presidential elections even though the President holds very little power to affect change (not saying the president of the United States is not a powerful individual, and of course that presupposes a Supreme Court that determines rulings based on law and not political ideology but that’s beyond my point).
You know who actually holds literal power at the federal level? Our state reps and senators.
You know who actually holds literal power at the state level? Our local reps and state senators.
And yet no one pays attention to local politics.
It IS the fault of the current media landscape and educational system that this is the case.
But we (US citizens) could maybe take 5 minutes to actually pay attention to local elections instead of just yelling about “Me President!” for 1 week evey 4 years.
