Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump by over 300k votes in the popular vote tally and has shattered the 60 million vote ceiling. Meanwhile, as of now, Donald Trump is still 170k votes away from getting to 60 million. Since California is still counting absentee votes and provisional ballots are still being counted in many places throughout the nation, it should surprise no-one if Hillary Clinton beats Donald Trump by over a million votes once all the ballots are counted. Wrap your head around that one for a minute… we likely will have a president who not only received less votes than the main opponent, but won’t even have received a plurality of the vote. Again. A mere 16 years after it happened before. That can’t be considered a mere aberration anymore. That’s a pattern.
In a functional and sane democracy we would be calling Hillary Clinton President-Elect now, not Donald Trump. It’s a crying shame that we don’t seem to be living in a sane and functional democracy.
Furthermore, due to the fact that Bush also received less votes than Gore in 2000, come February, Barack Obama will be the only president in this century to be able to say that he won a majority of the vote in all his elections.
Add a House of Representatives to the mix(which, unlike the Senate, is supposed to give voice to the popular vote) that has been gerrymandered so badly by Republicans that Democrats would need to win an estimated 53 to 55% of the popular vote to win a simple, slight majority and I think it’s fair to say that our democracy is in deep, deep trouble.