What's the maximum amount a candidate could win the Popular Vote by and lose?
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« on: November 11, 2016, 10:40:52 PM »
How much could a Presidential candidate win the people's votes by and still lose the electoral college? 3-4%?
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« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2016, 11:34:16 PM »
Purely theoretically, they could win the PV by 50% or more by getting 100% in all the largest EV states and then just barely losing in the others.  As a practical matter, a 5% margin is probably the realistic upper limit.
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« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2016, 08:10:42 AM »
I think you'd have to go some to match what just happened, huge margins for HRC in CA, NY and IL, huge margins for DJT in a load of small EV-states and on a knife-edge everywhere else
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« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2016, 08:47:00 AM »
It's mathematically possible to win the EC with only 22% of the vote, so 78%.
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