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I figure it’s still worth periodically posting a reminder that far more people wanted Hillary Clinton as their president than Donald Trump. The latest numbers show Clinton ahead by 2.6 million votes, or 2 percent of the total. Aside from the obviously corrupt election of 1876, no winning candidate in the two-party era has ever done even remotely as dismally in the popular vote as Trump.
