Hillary Wins!

In a way that doesn't count.  Unless, of course, the electoral college flips the whole thing on its head when they cast their votes in December.  I suppose it could happen.  There is a petition urging it.  But don't count on it - many of those Never-Trump Republicans are falling in line, and this is their chance to have a clean sweep of the whole shebang, Senate, House and Executive.  They're not going to dump that.  In fact, I think Trump was probably right when he said he could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any votes.

This will not sit well with Hillary fans, but you will hear it from them, no doubt: she is set to win some 2 million more votes than Trump did when all votes have been counted.

It does bring up once again the failure of the electoral system we have to reflect the "will of the people", but then it wasn't designed to do that precisely, and you won't likely hear any Democrats complaining about it if it goes to their candidate's advantage.

Nate Cohn, an election analyst at the New York Times, estimates that once all votes have been counted, 63.4 million Americans will have voted for Mrs Clinton and 61.2 million for Mr Trump, giving the Democrat a ‘winning’ margin of 1.5 per cent.

That total would be more than the votes received by any other presidential candidate in history except for Mr Obama in 2008 and 2012.

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However, it is not the overall number of votes cast for each candidate that matters in US presidential elections but the number of votes in the electoral college, which sees each state assigned a number of college votes that go to the candidate who wins the public vote in that state.

Mr Trump won the electoral college after unexpectedly taking states such as Michigan and Wisconsin that had previously been part of the Democrat’s “firewall” of safe states.

He finished with 306 electoral college voters to Mrs Clinton’s 232.

  UK Independent

This is the fifth time in America's history that the president was not chosen by popular vote.  Yay Democracy!*  By a popular vote, we should have had President Andrew Jackson in the 1824 election (by both popular and electoral!), although he did go on to win in a subsequent election.  And I'd stake whatever I have on Donald Trump winning a 2020 election after four years of Hillary had she won.

We should have had President Samuel J. Tilden instead of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, and a President Grover Cleveland in 1888 instead of Benjamin Harrison who followed Cleveland (although Cleveland was president both immediately before and immediately after Harrison anyway - what was so wrong with Harrison?).

And famously in our time, we should have had a President Al Gore instead of George Dumbfuck Bush in 2000.  That may have been the year that the Federation of Planets abandoned us.

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One reason the electoral college was created was to ensure no single region of the US could dominate, such as the North out-voting the South along old Civil War lines, for example.

  UK Independent

And the North has rued that system ever since.

In the present situation it would probably mean that states with large urban areas would dominate and rural folks would be out-voted.  Probably the South would still be disadvantaged, but definitely that big red swath up the middle of the country would not fare so well.

Honestly, we are not one big country.  We're more like the European Union on a larger scale and with a common language.  Language in strictly lingual terms.  Otherwise, we don't communicate all that well.

....but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.