Here’s your enthusiasm: Hillary Clinton got more New York votes than entire republican field

[Her Sister]

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/hillary-clinton-now-has-more-votes-than-every-2016-republican-candidate-combined/24544/

Hillary Clinton can celebrate after having received far more votes in New York than any other Presidential candidate in either party. But while she defeated him in a blowout by more than a quarter million votes, Bernie Sanders was the second place New York finisher in either party. In fact Sanders defeated Donald Trump by nearly a quarter million votes in his own right. Almost bizarrely, Hillary received more votes in New York than all republican candidates combined. What kind of math is going on here?

It’s a reminder that even though Donald Trump dominated the New York republican primary contest, he’s not particularly popular there. New York is a blue state that will go to the Democratic Party in the general election in November handily. Even though Ted Cruz did horrendously with just 123,000 votes in the state, finishing behind sideshow candidate John Kasich, it turns out Trump didn’t do particularly well either. His turnout of 518,000 votes was dominant on a percentage basis but not at all inspiring. In fact Trump lost his home base of Manhattan by about five percent to Kasich. However, the real story here is Hillary Clinton’s utter dominance.

Hillary already led Bernie Sanders by around 2.4 million votes nationwide, a tally which now climbs to around 2.7 million votes. Sanders had a strong night against the republicans, tallying 752,000 votes. But it turns out that Clinton and her 1.03 million votes are more than Trump, Kasich and Cruz received combined.

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[apcalc]

1. As it stands this morning

The difference was about half a million votes between HRC and BS.

[Her Sister]

2. think difference is about 300,000!?

B/w HRC and BS

[sarae]

5. and yet...

...some of BS's supporters are still going on about a contested convention. I'm at a loss. First they made a big stink about the "will of the people", now it's...I'm not sure what the reasoning is now, actually. What possible reason could you have when the people have spoken?

[brer cat]

6. I read a few of their posts.

The gist of it seems to be that we are gullible fools, low-information voters, etc. and therefore our votes shouldn't count...we should simply accept what the "pure" and superior folks tell us is best for the country. Their arrogance is astounding!

[sarae]

7. hah

Pretty funny...the argument keeps changing. I guess the will of the people only counts when the people want Bernie Sanders?

[Thinkingabout]

3. This is an important point, Democratic voters are needed to win the GE.

[stonecutter357]

4. K&R!