A note to some people who are finally calling for everyone to join together

[MineralMan]

92. Well, he certainly should have, if only to prevent his election.

In the popular vote, people did choose Hillary Clinton. But, since we have the Electoral College, that was not quite enough. We lost several states we should have won handily by very narrow margins - close enough for recounts to be made, actually.

People will be debating why that happened for years to come, but it doesn't matter, really. Not enough people in those states voted for the Democratic candidate, or the situation would be reversed. It's very sad, really. Just a few tens of thousands of votes resulted in Donald Trump's victory. Just a few tens of thousands.

In fact, the total margin for Trump in each of those three states, WI, MI and PA, was less than the number of votes placed for Jill Stein in each of those states. So, it wasn't a large bloc of votes, nor was it votes that weren't counted, either. Enough people in those states voted for Jill Stein to have allowed Clinton to win if they had been cast for her.

That is, for me, a very sobering bit of information. I know some Jill Stein voters in Minnesota. They're as horrified at the prospect of a Trump administration as I am. Fortunately, Minnesota went for Clinton.

And then, there was the undervote for the presidential race in those three states. That number, as well, is larger than Trump's margin of victory in all three of those states. People who didn't cast their vote for any of the presidential candidates.

Not enough people in enough states voted for Hillary. That's why she lost, pure and simple. Votes were counted. Now, there may well have been shenanigans surrounding the voting and counting, but those votes (or non-votes) were counted. In both cases, there were enough of those to have flipped the election in WI, MI, and PA.

Sad, but true.