Campaigning Smart: Would Hillary Really Have Won If Election Was Based on Popular Vote?

mishtalk.com / Mike “Mish” Shedlock / December 23, 2016 9:44:24

Without a doubt, Trump campaigned much smarter than Hillary.  Now Michael More and his ilk are upset because Trump lost the popular vote. Had the rules been different, Trump would have campaigned differently.

Salil Mehta at Statistical Ideas explores that question in Popular Vote Besotted.

No one complained in early October about the Electoral College rules, no one complained that Russian President Putin was hacking our election system, no one complained that the results would be illegitimate if too many Whites versus Blacks come out to vote, and no one complained that Americans were going to have a negative view of Hillary’s e-mails (from servers, to leaks). When asked at the 2nd presidential debate whether the election outcome would be accepted, it was Clinton to had to call Trump’s response “horrifying” and a “taking down of our democracy”. Why not; it was game over after that Access Hollywood gift, and it’s time to plan expensive fireworks over the Hudson River on election night. Those fireworks never happened.

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