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For people outside the USA who may naively conflate "elected" with "the majority of the voters voted for", I feel the need to point out that this is not what happened.

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Clinton did not get the majority by that much. A very significant portion of the public voted for this leader and the party espousing similar anti-science position all the way down the ticket.

Agreed, but in democracies a special status is conferred upon the majority. The majority of voters did not vote for this idiot. It's a really important point.

A majority of voters did not vote for Clinton, either.

Plurality, then.

You'll find that in many countries the leader was not voted by a majority, in parliamentary republics which are based on coalitions or with various voting methods the leader can effectively be someone who did not get anywhere near the majority of the vote.

Similar things are possible in most countries, especially parliamentary democracies.

Finally tally isn't in, CNN still has Trump as the projected winner of the popular vote.

This is slightly off topic, but the fact that Trump got as many votes as he did, or that Hillary did not get way more votes that a person running against Trump should have, shows how bad of a candidate she was.

She was not even very popular with women. Democrats screwed themselves.

>She was not even very popular with women.

4% lower than Obama. Pathetic.

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