EXACTLY!!! And I have written my representatives to pursue it.
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United We Stand---What happened to that Sentiment?
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EXACTLY!!! And I have written my representatives to pursue it.
Good luck with that
Okay.
President Trump received 62,979,636 popular votes.
Hillary Clinton received 56,844,610 popular votes.
Trump wins.
You don't get it. Only one of those numbers can be the popular vote.
But thanks for reminding me......I will renew my stance on this topic with my elected officials. A grass roots movement I believe is already in the works. 
4 now. Lets see how he does in the future.
Good luck with that. You are aware that 3/4 of the states have to ratify a Constitutional Amendment, aren't you? That's 38 states. Hillary could only carry 20. Trump carried 30. See a pattern here?
Why? Don't Hillary's votes count?
popular vote
noun
1.
the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualifiedvoters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college.
Compare electoral vote.
2.
the vote for a candidate, issue, etc., made by the qualified voters, asopposed to a vote made by elected representatives.
the definition of popular vote
noun
1.
the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualifiedvoters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college.
Compare electoral vote.
2.
the vote for a candidate, issue, etc., made by the qualified voters, asopposed to a vote made by elected representatives.
the definition of popular vote
Thanks!
Who qualifies those voters and who counts those votes?
Who counts votes now?
At the national level. Nobody. That's my point. The talking heads on major media outlets add up the reports from the states. Do you really want to trust the news media to tell us who the next President is going to be?
youve heard of "Make things happen" kinda like Make America Great"
The American voter, in the heartland of America, are not stupid enough to turn every Presidential election over to the states of New York, Illinois, and California.
Yea right
WIKI STUFF
2016: Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton (left) won more of the popular vote than elected President Donald Trump (right) in 2016.
The 2016 presidential election featured Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton (former U.S. Senator from New York, Secretary of State, and First Lady to President Bill Clinton) and Republican nominee Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman (owner of the Trump Organization[20][21]) from New York City, who had no prior political experience or service in the military. Both nominees had turbulent journeys in primary races,[22][23] and were seen unfavorably by the general public.[24] The election saw multiple third party candidates,[25] and there were over a million write-in votes cast.[26]
Most national and swing state polls favored Clinton, who was strongly favored to win by most media outlets.[27] However, Trump exceeded expectations on Election Day, especially in the Rust Belt where he swept the traditionally Democratic states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by narrow margins.[28] Clinton recorded lop-sided margins in large states such as California, Illinois and New York while keeping Texas, Arizona and Georgia unusually close for a recent Democratic nominee.[29] Clinton also won safe Democratic medium-sized states such as Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington with vast margins. Clinton managed to edge out Trump in Virginia, a swing state where her running mate Tim Kaine had served as Governor. Trump also won traditional swing state Florida by a tight margin along with Republican-leaning North Carolina, further contributing to the electoral flip of the popular vote. Trump won by a large margin in Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee with most of Trump's larger wins coming in smaller states.
When the Electoral College cast its votes on December 19, 2016,[30] Trump received 304 votes to Clinton's 227 with seven electors defecting to other choices, the most faithless electors (2 from Trump, 5 from Clinton) in any presidential election in over a hundred years. Clinton had nonetheless received almost three million more votes (65,853,516 to 62,984,825) in the general election than Trump, giving Clinton a popular vote lead of 2.1% over Trump.[29][31]
But neither Trump nor Hillary were trying to win the popular vote. That's like saying your Baseball Team should win if they have more hits, even if they got less runs.
Oh really...
So I trust the government? Oh boy!
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