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2016 Postmortem

Coyotl

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11. Perhaps it is to you, but it illustrates how large the vote margin of victory is.

Reply to mythology (Reply #6)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 11:30 AM

Dec 2016

I think it is very meaningful to understand that the sum of all the Trump votes in a dozen states is less than our popular vote victory. Especially when so many Trump voters are in denial about losing the popular vote of think there were this many illegal voters. This clearly illustrates the absurdity of Trumps claim he won the popular vote. It also illustrates the absurdity of the electoral result.

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Obama orders 'full review' of election-related hacking [View all] flamingdem Dec 2016 OP

What took so long? guillaumeb Dec 2016 #1

"full review" Coyotl Dec 2016 #3

But as Trumpers rewrite history in a few months Trumpers will explain that Trump won guillaumeb Dec 2016 #4

That graphic is utterly meaningless mythology Dec 2016 #6

i've seen thos graph a few times and thought the same thing lol Takket Dec 2016 #8

Perhaps it is to you, but it illustrates how large the vote margin of victory is. Coyotl Dec 2016 #11

Exactly! AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #9

Makes sense Lotusflower70 Dec 2016 #2

Tick-tock Hekate Dec 2016 #5

Thank you flamingdem.. I trust that President Obama has been Cha Dec 2016 #7

yes. it was a treasonous hack. period. nt TheFrenchRazor Dec 2016 #10