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Re:Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum by talmand on Monday November 28, 2016 @09:58AM (#13055770)
And voters in two or three counties gave Clinton the popular vote.
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Re:Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum by allemagne on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:22AM (#13061264)
Would that mean there was no way Trump could have lost? No.

It is unclear how using counties as a metric is useful. It would be quite significant if Clinton won the equivalent of the population of LA county over Trump.

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Re:Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum by talmand on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @09:24AM (#13063169)
>> It is unclear how using counties as a metric is useful.

It's about as useful as referring to the popular vote in a contest that clearly established beforehand that it would not be considered.

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Re:Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum by allemagne on Thursday December 01, 2016 @07:24PM (#13084940)
The popular vote is a relevant example of how the contest was not inevitable. More people voted for Hillary than for Trump... that's not what wins the election, but it's not meaningless to a democratic society. Counties, however, are completely arbitrary. Should winning the least populous 51% of counties matter to anyone?

You're using it as a convenient way to sidestep the obvious implication of losing the popular vote.

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