13023538, Trump's is more impressive b/c he had to split the pie more
Posted by maryhattalillamb, Thu May-19-16 08:34 AM
>I think it's useful to keep these numbers in mind. 50 million
>votes have been cast so far for the Republicans and the
>Democrats.
>
>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_vote_count.html
>
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>Democrats:
>Clinton: 12,432,097
>Sanders: 9,298,846
>
>Clinton +3,133,251 (Over 21 million total votes.)
>
>--
>Republicans:
>Trump: 10,643,900
>Cruz: 7,258,216
>Rubio: 3,466,381
>Kasich: 3,755,557
>
>Trump +3,385,684 (Over 25 million total votes.)
>
Trump had to fight off 16 other candidates cumulatively pouring BILLIONS of dollars against him (Jeb Bush)
Whereas HRC only had to fend off a very (at the time) unknown Bernie.
Be wary of Trump!
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