<div dir="ltr"><div>Four days ago, Clinton's national popular vote lead over Trump was close to 2.2 million. Today it is over 2.5 million:<br><a href="http://cookpolitical.com/story/10174">http://cookpolitical.com/story/10174</a><br><br><span class="gmail-igc-table-cell-span">U.S. Total
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65,250,267
</span><span class="gmail-igc-table-cell-span">62,686,000
<br>---------------------------------</span><span class="gmail-igc-table-cell-span">-----------------<br><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-igc-table-cell-span">Clinton's popular vote win is well over four times as great as Gore's popular vote win in 2000, though around 26 million more votes were cast in 2016:<br><a href="http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/prespop.htm">http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/prespop.htm</a><br><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-igc-table-cell-span">Bush v. Gore 2000:<br><br></span><br><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Al Gore (Democrat)</font>
<p align="CENTER"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman">50,999,897</font></font></p>
<p align="CENTER"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman">48.38</font></font></p>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="2">George W. Bush (Republican)</font>
<p align="CENTER"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman">50,456,002</font></font></p>
<p align="CENTER"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman">47.87</font></font></p></div><div><span class="gmail-igc-table-cell-span"></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">------------------------------------------<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">------------------------------------------<br><div dir="ltr"><div>The Cook Political Report apparently presents a credible updated national popular vote total for Trump v. Clinton 2016. Currently at this moment, her lead is as follows:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://cookpolitical.com/story/10174" target="_blank">http://cookpolitical.com/<wbr>story/10174</a></div><div><br></div><div>Clinton 64,654,445 Trump 62,418,792</div><div><br></div><div>At the very least, emphasizing this popular vote divergence from the electoral college Trump "win" is very important to argue against a Trump mandate to make sweeping changes that would be against the will of a majority of the citizens of the US.</div><div><br></div><div>The calls for national unity behind Trump's agenda apparently are based on dismissing the will of the majority. </div><div>------------------------------<wbr>-----------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><table class="gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-igc-table gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-table-header-align-center gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-__smaller gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-__dynamic gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-__visible" id="gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-Chart_33734045"><tbody class="gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-igc-table-body"><tr class="gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-igc-table-row"><td class="gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-igc-table-cell"><p><span class="gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-igc-table-cell-span"> <wbr> </span></p> </td><td class="gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-igc-table-cell"><span class="gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-igc-table-cell-span"> <wbr> </span> <wbr> </td><td class="gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-igc-table-cell"><p><span class="gmail-m_9163677467469894541gmail-igc-table-cell-span"></span><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>
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