title: hes never sold an original painting until nowand this ones going in the white house
text: go to article dear abby i supported a woman i knew had a history of criminal activity who is married to a rapist and who left  men to die in benghazi she put our national security at grave risk by leaving top classified emails on her private server and she took money from nations who throw gays off rooftops and treat women worse than cockroaches she is likely very sick and would be unlikely to serve out her first term without someone there to prop her up but nevertheless i supported her anyhow because shes a democrat and has a vagina someone told me she still has a chance of winning the presidency if i just signed a petition they said that trump really didnt win because hillary won the popular vote is that true 
  okay lets address this hillary might win the popular vote isnt that electoral college situation just awful thing head on 
  no its not awful its great and it protects the importance of your vote its also uniquely american and demonstrates yet again the onceincreation brilliance of the founding fathers 
  first of all shes probably not going to win the actual number of votes cast she may win the number of votes counted but not the votes cast 
  states dont count their absentee ballots unless the number of outstanding absentee ballots is larger than the state margin of difference if there is a margin of  votes counted and there are  absentee ballots outstanding then the state tabulates those if the number of outstanding absentee ballots wouldnt influence the election results then the absentee ballots arent counted 
  who votes by absentee ballot students overseas the military businesspeople on trips etc the historical breakout for absentee ballots is about  republican in  when al gore won the popular vote nationally by  votes and the liberal media screamed bloody murder there were  million absentee ballots in california alone a  breakout of those yields a  to million republican vote advantage so bush would have gotten a vote margin from californias uncounted absentee ballots alone so much for gores  popular vote victory that was the headline on the ny times and it was the lead story on nbc nightly news right no youre kidding 
  getting back to the win the popular votelose the electoral college scenario thank gd we have that or else california and ny would determine every election every time 
  but the electoral college brilliantly smooths out the variances in the voting proclivities among states and regions farmers in the middle of the country and importers and exporters on the shore get roughly equal say as do madison ave execs and factory workers in tennessee 
  shortcomings sure the ec can make an r vote meaningless in a very few heavily d states or vice versa but without the electoral college the countrys entire population is subject to the disproportionate voting preferences of the few most populous states  american thinker comment on this article via your facebook account comment on this article via your disqus account follow us on facebook