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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2631963" data-attributes="member: 12952">The Founders set up the system specifically to prevent a few population centers from ruling the entire country, similar to the way they set up the House and Senate so that populous states wouldn’t have outsized power over less-populated states.One set of numbers in particular really drives this point home. Trump <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fb5a5f7da21d460bbffb6985cb01cb2c/trending-story-clinton-won-just-57-counties-untrue" target="_blank">won the vote in 2,626 counties</a> nationwide, while Clinton won the vote in just 487 counties. That’s a stunningly low number, even for a Democrat. When former President Barack Obama won 689 counties nationwide in 2009, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50073771/t/obama-won-record-low-share-us-counties-he-won-them-big/#.WI9Qq7YrJE5" target="_blank">he set a record</a> for the lowest number of counties won by a winning presidential candidate.<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/30/when-you-hear-mention-of-clintons-popular-vote-total-just-point-out-this-fact/" target="_blank">When You Hear Mention Of Clinton’s Popular Vote Total, Just Point Out This Fact</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2631963, member: 12952"] The Founders set up the system specifically to prevent a few population centers from ruling the entire country, similar to the way they set up the House and Senate so that populous states wouldn’t have outsized power over less-populated states. One set of numbers in particular really drives this point home. Trump [URL='http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fb5a5f7da21d460bbffb6985cb01cb2c/trending-story-clinton-won-just-57-counties-untrue']won the vote in 2,626 counties[/URL] nationwide, while Clinton won the vote in just 487 counties. That’s a stunningly low number, even for a Democrat. When former President Barack Obama won 689 counties nationwide in 2009, [URL='http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50073771/t/obama-won-record-low-share-us-counties-he-won-them-big/#.WI9Qq7YrJE5']he set a record[/URL] for the lowest number of counties won by a winning presidential candidate. [URL="http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/30/when-you-hear-mention-of-clintons-popular-vote-total-just-point-out-this-fact/"]When You Hear Mention Of Clinton’s Popular Vote Total, Just Point Out This Fact[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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