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> Something I don't think people realize: 3 million people isn't that many.

It's not that many in relative terms, but it's certainly a lot of people. It's more than the population of some countries and 20 US states.




> It's more than the population of some countries and 20 US states.

That last part (the margin of victory was tiny relative to some state populations) provides valuable insight into how broken the Electoral College is as a selection system.

(I don't mean that small-in-population states are solely responsible for electoral skew, but they're a good example of the problem.)




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