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[–] 26304792? ago 

Ronald Reagan won 525 electoral votes and carried 49 states in his re-election in 1984. Reagan won in 1984 with an 18% lead in popular vote (but that is irrelevant since that's not what the Electoral Vote contest is even about): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election

I went to the Inaugural Ball in 1985 and it was EPIC!

[–] 26305111? ago 

Reagan won in 1984 with an 18% lead in popular vote

Exactly. Which would mean Trump would need about a 20% increase of votes in every single state. His margin is simply not that big. Reagan's victory is not going to repeat itself, the demographics of the US have changed dramatically since then -- white people are now a minority, and Hispanics have continued to flood into the country. Trump actually LOST ground with white men in this election, and that's based on exit polling, not pre polling.

[–] 26306198? ago 

Yes, the demos in America are night and day vs. the early 1980s. I'm not hung up on the popular vote tallies at all though (even though HRC is). Popular vote is not the game - electoral vote is - therefore popular vote doesn't mean diddly shit. I would have loved to see a 40-state win by Trump though, just for him to get to spike the football a bit. He deserves a "thundering" re-election victory (as he requested at his rallies) and I pray that this is exactly what he shall receive, albeit way later than it should have been.