<div dir="ltr"><div>I read through the analysis offered from the Washington Post by Philip Bump.  </div><div><br></div><div>Given the predicted popular vote margin close to 2 million in favor of H. Clinton, that was posted to Vision2020 (which could be questioned, of course),<strong> using a vote margin of only 230,000, as indicated below quoting the article, perhaps indicates this article was more about attracting eyeballs?  Make money off election coverage before the public loses interest, rather than waiting for all the facts?</strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Another example of the rush to make a quick buck media bottom line <em>trumping</em> the political truth?  Trump wasn't granted massive free media promotion due to his simple minded scandalous sound bite reality TV show approach to running his campaign, attracting millions of dollars in advertising revenue, was he?</strong></div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><strong>I have been trying to find a credible source on the Internet that offers a </strong></div><div><strong>daily ongoing </strong><strong>popular vote count for Trump v. Clinton 2016.  Any Internet wizards know of one?</strong></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------<br></div><div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/10/spoiler-that-plan-to-have-the-electoral-college-elect-hillary-clinton-isnt-going-to-work/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/10/spoiler-that-plan-to-have-the-electoral-college-elect-hillary-clinton-isnt-going-to-work/</a></div><div><br></div><div><strong>"She currently leads him by about 230,000 votes."</strong></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div><div>From the rigged slanted liberal media paid for by crooked lying H. Clinton's cronies!</div><div><br></div><div>From NBC NEWS - MEET THE PRESS <p> "11.13.16"</p><p><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-november-13-2016-n683211">http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-november-13-2016-n683211</a></p><p><strong>"Right now with 93% of the vote counted, Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by more than 600,000 votes, larger already than Al Gore had in the popular vote over George W. Bush. And she'll almost surely end up winning the popular vote, perhaps by as much as two percentage points. </strong></p></div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Scott Dredge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com" target="_blank">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">




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<div id="gmail-m_4497220465477657317yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_3137" dir="ltr">'...since Clinton got more votes, those electors should support her, where possible, and hand her the presidency.'</div>
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that mandate</a> electors uphold the will of the electorate, meaning that there are 25 that don't.'</div>
<div id="gmail-m_4497220465477657317yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11787" dir="ltr">'take the electors in those 25 states and let them divvy up their votes however they want [in a legal split]'<br>
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<div id="gmail-m_4497220465477657317yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11837" dir="ltr">'If we do that, the results change — and Clinton still loses, 260 to 278.'</div>
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<div id="gmail-m_4497220465477657317yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11933" dir="ltr">'Well, since Clinton did well nationally, why don't we just divvy up
<em id="gmail-m_4497220465477657317yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11959">every</em> elector this way? (The <em id="gmail-m_4497220465477657317yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11960">
total split</em>.) If we do that . . . Trump does better, getting 279 electors to Clinton's 259.' 
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