Re(3): Electing the President by National Popular Vote

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Re(3): Electing the President by National Popular Vote
Posted on 3/3/2019 at 20:00:32 by Bill Crawford, (14)

An interesting phenomenon.

Looking at the map of Blue States vs Red States in the 2016 presidential election, and the populations involved, I calculated that it would have taken approximately 24 out of the 25 of those Blue States (48% of all the states) in order for Clinton to have won the popular vote. (Assuming 53% over 47% for Clinton in each of the Blue States, and the same percentages for Trump in the Red States---By the way I did a laborious estimate of what the popular vote would have been if there had been a 53% over 47% rule used, and found that my estimated popular vote outcome came very close to the actual popular vote--with Clinton winning by 500,000 more votes using my estimate).

However, as can be seen in the following table, a President can be elected by electoral votes when winning only 14 states (28% of all the states):

State Nr. of Electors
Arizona 11
California 55
Florida 29
Georgia 16
Illinois 20
Indians 11
Ohio 18
Pennsylvania 20
Tennessee 11
Texas 38
Utah
Virginia 13
Washington 12
Wisconsin 10
Totals
14 270

14/50 = 28% of states

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