Hi Alaska Pi, nice to see you again. I did not state that her popular vote totals were only from California. I was addressing the point that her vote margin in California was better than 4 million and her nationwide vote total was about 2.8 million more than Trump's. Her vote total in California was at least 1.2 million more than her vote total nationwide. While she did win 20 states and won each with more votes than Trump, she also lost 30 states with less votes than Trump. Due to the fact that our constitution prescribes that the Electoral College is how a presidential election is decided, yes, the loser is vanquished to the sidelines. You are also absolutely right about American's retaining their rights to proclaim their support or opposition to the direction the country is moving. Over at least the last 6 years, about 70% of Americans were saying the country was headed in the wrong direction. The democratic party failed to pay heed and paid for that arrogance.