donald trump has won the popular vote for the 2016 presidential election.
donald trump has won the popular vote for the 2016 presidential election.
who has won the popular vote for the 2016 presidential election?
donald trump
beginning with the 2000 election, the status of the missouri bellwether came into question. between 1904 and 2004, missouri was carried by the victor of each presidential election, with the exception of 1956. though bush won the presidency in the 2000 election through the electoral college, he lost the national popular vote. the 2000 election was unique because this was the first time in over a century where the popular vote winner lost the general election. (in 1888, missouri voted for grover cleveland, the incumbent democrat, who lost to republican candidate benjamin harrison). thus, controversy exists as to whether or not missouri accurately predicted victor in this election. in the subsequent election, missouri voted for george w. bush, who this time won both the popular vote and the electoral college. missouri has voted reliably republican since 2000. the state voted for john mccain in 2008, and for mitt romney in 2012, both of whom lost the general election to barack obama. the controversy is further complicated by the 2016 presidential election, where missouri voted for donald trump by a landslide, while hillary clinton won the popular vote by nearly three million votes, but like in 2000, trump won the electoral college and became 45th president of the united states. like 2000, political scientists have differing opinions on whether or not missouri accurately predicted the victor, and even if missouri is still a bellwether state at all.
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since 1824, aside from the occasional "faithless elector", the popular vote determines the winner of a presidential election by determining the electoral vote, as each state or district's popular vote determines its electoral college vote. although the nationwide popular vote does not directly determine the winner of a presidential election, it does strongly correlate with who is the victor. in 53 of the 58 total elections held so far (about 91 percent), the winner of the national popular vote has also carried the electoral college vote. the winners of the nationwide popular vote and the electoral college vote differ only in close elections. in highly competitive elections, candidates focus on turning out their vote in the contested swing states critical to winning an electoral college majority, so they do not try to maximize their popular vote by real or fraudulent vote increases in one-party areas.
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