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In reply to the discussion: Bannon was right on this... [View all]erpowers
(9,445 posts)I know many here are tired of people like me stating that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million votes. However, the fact still remains that she won the popular vote by 3 million votes. It is very possible that she would have won the electoral college vote if not for voter suppression. In addition, it is possible that she in fact did have enough votes to win the electoral college vote, but some votes might have been thrown out due to people's votes being disqualified for a multitude of reasons.
In Detroit alone, 70,000 presidential ballots were not counted. How likely do you think it is that Trump won half of those 70,000 votes? So, let us give him 10 percent of those votes, which would add up to 7,000 votes. That would give Hillary Clinton 63,000 votes. Those totals would have allowed Hillary Clinton to win Michigan.
We have no way of knowing whether or not the same thing happened in many other predominately black and/or minority areas. It has been reported that many black and minority areas suffered from broken voting machines.
I will listen to Steve Bannon when the Republican Party can win national elections without preventing minorities from voting. Millions of people were prevented from voting in last year's election. In many states Trump only won by a few thousand votes while hundreds of thousands of people were prevented from voting.
So, it is very possible that voter suppression and not identity politics cost Hillary Clinton last year's election. We have not idea how many ballots were thrown out during last year's election. It is very possible that if all the ballots had been counted, last year, Hillary Clinton would be President of the United States.