> > "Clinton won 43% of the popular vote...." > > He got 43% of the 40%of the people who ACTUALLY voted. > > Which means that 17.2 % of American voters elected him. And folks wonder > why they have an electoral collage...:) Since "no-voters" usually don't care who wins that is tacit approval and certainly qualifies as "consent of the governed" So If 53% didn't vote he actually got 70%
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