>Whats Hillarys margin on the pop vote now. 2.5 million.trump overwhelming mandate maybe not. Or are those all dodgy votes. Its a lot isn't it 2.5 million voters who may just as well have stayed at home.
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>You keep on missing the point about the purpose of our electoral college no matter how many different people keep pointing this out to you multiple times. We do not want New York and California choosing the president for the rest of the country - the place that they like to call "fly-over country".

I have a theoretical question (for anyone who's interested). In theory (though admittedly, never in practice), someone could win the electoral vote with as little as about 22% of the popular vote. Is there any value at which you would say that, whether it's our historical system or not, the difference between the popular vote and the electoral vote is so large that it casts doubt on the legitimacy of the outcome? If the answer is yes, what is that value?

Tamar