Who Won The Popular Vote? Latest Polls Show Hillary Clinton Ahead Of Donald Trump Despite Loss

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SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES

URL: http://www.ibtimes.com/who-won-popular-vote-latest-polls-show-hillary-clinton-ahead-donald-trump-despite-2444057

BY GREG PRICE


Republican Donald Trump sewed up the 2016 presidential election by claiming 306 electoral votes to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 232, according to the most recent reported tally. However, Clinton, despite the devastating loss that very well could mean the end of her political career, did reportedly take the lead in the popular vote Wednesday morning as Minnesota, Michigan, New Hampshire and others continue to count votes.

As of early Wednesday morning, Clinton had 58,909,774 total votes compared to Trump’s 58,864,233, according to CBS News and CNN. The tallies will continue to change but Clinton holds a 47.6 percent lead compared to Trump’s 47.5 percent.

Unlike the last two presidential elections, which saw current commander-in-chief Barack Obama win both the electoral college and the popular vote over Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney, there is a chance Trump could be the first to take the country’s highest political office without the popular vote since George W. Bush’s victory over Democrat Al Gore in 2000.

Clinton, who was reportedly too upset to address her supporters at New York’s Jacob Javits Center after she conceded to Trump early Wednesday morning, did manage to take key battleground states like Nevada, Colorado and Virginia and most of her electoral support came from cities.

Trump, however, secured his incredible upset victory by taking Florida, Iowa, Arizona, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. In terms of the popular vote, Trump’s widest margin in a swing state was Iowa, where he claimed 51.7 percent compared to Clinton’s 42.2 percent with 99 percent of polls reporting, according to CBS News.

Minnesota, Michigan, and Maine represent a combined 30 electoral votes, meaning even if Clinton does pull away with those states she still can’t reach the required 270.

Trump was holding a slim 47.6 percent lead to Clinton’s 47.3 percent in Michigan Wednesday morning, with a difference of roughly 215,000 votes. In New Hampshire it was just as close with a little more than 300 votes separating Trump and Clinton, according to CNN. In Minnesota, the two were divided by about 42,000 votes, with Clinton ahead 46.8 percent to Trump’s 45.4 percent.

[libertybele]

"... The tallies will continue to change but Clinton holds a 47.6 percent lead compared to Trump’s 47.5 percent.""

Seriously here?  She leads by .1%.         End of discussion.

[montanajoe]

"... The tallies will continue to change but Clinton holds a 47.6 percent lead compared to Trump’s 47.5 percent.""

Seriously here?  She leads by .1%.         End of discussion.

Seriously, if the situation was reversed everyone knows that for Trump supporters it would not be the end of the discussion...

[Cripplecreek]

Seriously, if the situation was reversed everyone knows that for Trump supporters it would not be the end of the discussion...

It was an unpopularity contest with some 7 million fewer voters than 2012.

[ABX]

It was an unpopularity contest with some 7 million fewer voters than 2012.

Good way to put it.

[Chosen Daughter]

"... The tallies will continue to change but Clinton holds a 47.6 percent lead compared to Trump’s 47.5 percent.""

Seriously here?  She leads by .1%.         End of discussion.

Yeah that is silly. 

[Norm Lenhart]

It was an unpopularity contest with some 7 million fewer voters than 2012.

Edit, we gained about that much in total pop

Population
2012
313,847,465   

2016
324,975,832

[jmyrlefuller]

Yes, and mind you, with Johnson peeling off about 4%, neither Trump nor Clinton got a majority in the popular vote.

[Fantom]

It was an unpopularity contest with some 7 million fewer voters than 2012.

   Yeah right.

Two bloated dead skunks in the road, and you have to choose to hit one of them....nice choice. 

[Fantom]

Oh, btw..... we are not a Democracy..we are a Republic.

Fortunately, one needs a consensus here in America across ALL States to elect a President... not just a few 110% urban voting districts.

Fortunately.. I hope, America chose the best bloated skunk.

[roamer_1]

Fortunately.. I hope, America chose the best bloated skunk.

I remain adamant that there is no such thing. I'd rather poke a dead beaver with a stick.

[Fantom]

I remain adamant that there is no such thing. I'd rather poke a dead beaver with a stick.

Seems Trump did just that.   

[roamer_1]

Seems Trump did just that.   

 

[dfwgator]

So?  Bet Trump would still win if the rules dictated that the popular vote wins.

The campaign would be structured completely different.

Also, how many people in the non-swing states weren't motivated to vote because they knew it wouldn't matter. Bet Trump would have gotten a lot more votes from Texas and California if those votes actually would have mattered.

[libertybele]

Seriously, if the situation was reversed everyone knows that for Trump supporters it would not be the end of the discussion...

The election is over.  I was a huge Cruz supporter and I too have been very disappointed that this election turned out the way it did.  However, it is over.  Hillary is defeated, we retained the House and Senate and we should be counting our blessings right now.  We need to come together and quit with all the continued accusations against the Trump supporters.  The election is over.  Trump won!  We need to pray for this nation.  Right now we have idiots protesting and burning flags in the streets and the DEMS are going to do everything to ensure that Trump doesn't succeed.  The left has instilled in our students that the GOP are racists and bigots, when indeed it is they that are guilty.  If we don't show unity, how do we expect them to accept our new president?  The GOP controls the House, the Senate and the Oval office.  We have a real chance to move this country forward instead of being stuck on who we would have rather had in the White Office.  Let's move on and move forward.

[Fantom]

The election is over.  I was a huge Cruz supporter and I too have been very disappointed that this election turned out the way it did.  However, it is over.  Hillary is defeated, we retained the House and Senate and we should be counting our blessings right now.  We need to come together and quit with all the continued accusations against the Trump supporters.  The election is over.  Trump won!  We need to pray for this nation.  Right now we have idiots protesting and burning flags in the streets and the DEMS are going to do everything to ensure that Trump doesn't succeed.  The left has instilled in our students that the GOP are racists and bigots, when indeed it is they that are guilty.  If we don't show unity, how do we expect them to accept our new president?  The GOP controls the House, the Senate and the Oval office.  We have a real chance to move this country forward instead of being stuck on who we would have rather had in the White Office.  Let's move on and move forward.

I am there too.

Unless Trump betrays Conservatives. But I will not buy that trouble till I see it.

There were two jackasses... I am riding the only one headed in my direction...so far.

[Cripplecreek]

The election is over.  I was a huge Cruz supporter and I too have been very disappointed that this election turned out the way it did.  However, it is over.  Hillary is defeated, we retained the House and Senate and we should be counting our blessings right now.  We need to come together and quit with all the continued accusations against the Trump supporters.  The election is over.  Trump won!  We need to pray for this nation.  Right now we have idiots protesting and burning flags in the streets and the DEMS are going to do everything to ensure that Trump doesn't succeed.  The left has instilled in our students that the GOP are racists and bigots, when indeed it is they that are guilty.  If we don't show unity, how do we expect them to accept our new president?  The GOP controls the House, the Senate and the Oval office.  We have a real chance to move this country forward instead of being stuck on who we would have rather had in the White Office.  Let's move on and move forward.

God forbid that any onus be on orange glorious to actually do something remotely conservative before we come together.

[Fantom]

God forbid that any onus be on orange glorious to actually do something remotely conservative before we come together.

Mike Pence

Newt.

Ted Cruz endorsed... and campaigned for him.

Policy/Judges by Heritage.....

He did enough that I voted for him here in Oklahoma..where I could have not voted for him and kept ..what.. some sense of moral superiority?

No, Trump did enough in embracing Conservative positions and People's, that I had to vote my conscience... like Ted.

Hopefully Trump is not the ultimate Trojan Horse.  We will see.

[Right_in_Virginia]

God forbid that any onus be on orange glorious to actually do something remotely conservative before we come together.

That's President-Elect Trump.   Enough with the gratuitous insults toward him, please.

Thanks.

[Fantom]

That's President-Elect Trump.   Enough with the gratuitous insults toward him, please.

Thanks.

To be fair... the Orange One, has not provided a birth certificate.

[Right_in_Virginia]

To be fair... the Orange One, has not provided a birth certificate.

Okay...so you're still angry.  I hope you choose to let that anger go. 

[Maj. Bill Martin]

God forbid that any onus be on orange glorious to actually do something remotely conservative before we come together.

Aren't we all together in hoping that he'll do something remotely conservative?

[roamer_1]

That's President-Elect Trump.   Enough with the gratuitous insults toward him, please.

Thanks.

They aren't gratuitous.  Justified.

[Fantom]

Okay...so you're still angry.  I hope you choose to let that anger go.

LOL... "Natural Born Citizen". Which in the most restricted  case, is a person born of two parents who are BOTH Citizens of the Country in question. Trumps mom was of Scottish birth.

Just sayin'.

As for angry.. rather amused actually. Heck... I just voted for the orange fool.

[montanajoe]

The election is over.  I was a huge Cruz supporter and I too have been very disappointed that this election turned out the way it did.  However, it is over.  Hillary is defeated, we retained the House and Senate and we should be counting our blessings right now.  We need to come together and quit with all the continued accusations against the Trump supporters.  The election is over.  Trump won!  We need to pray for this nation.  Right now we have idiots protesting and burning flags in the streets and the DEMS are going to do everything to ensure that Trump doesn't succeed.  The left has instilled in our students that the GOP are racists and bigots, when indeed it is they that are guilty.  If we don't show unity, how do we expect them to accept our new president?  The GOP controls the House, the Senate and the Oval office.  We have a real chance to move this country forward instead of being stuck on who we would have rather had in the White Office.  Let's move on and move forward.

"We"? got a mouse in your pocket?

I view both Trump and Clinton as equally bad. I supported neither while  caring less who was elected. Now that he is elected he needs to put up or shut up for me to ever believe he is actually a Conservative. He's one of the two worst moral degenerates to run for president in the history of this country....I won't cut him any slack..sorry if some have their tender sensibilities ruffled by that but thats just the way it is from my perspective..