# Watch how the Republicans DON'T whine about winning the popular but losing the electoral college... **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 7, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176 "2012-11-07T04:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176/21 "2012-11-07T06:11:25Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > In fact, I quit here four years ago when I predicted Obama wouldn’t win in 2008. All I can say is the Republicans will \*\*NOT \*\*whine & moan about losing the electoral college but winning the popular the way the Dems did endlessly in 2000. I note that Obama is currently up 150k in the popular vote now with the west coast still counting. I trust you will be back in 2016 with more bad predictions, yes? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176/22 "2012-11-07T06:12:37Z")
Guy on Fox: “Romney was reluctant to throw barbs at Obama during the campaign…” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176/23 "2012-11-07T06:13:26Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > I agree, they won’t. Because Obama has won the popular vote by a comfortable margin. I’d just like to repeat this in case **Hail Ants** missed it. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176/24 "2012-11-07T06:35:17Z")
To put some numbers on it: Obama currently leads by about 400,000 votes, according to CNN. According to my crude calculations, Obama stands to gain about a million more votes than Romney in California from the votes not yet counted. He should also get 500,000 in New York and 100,000 in Michigan. Other than that, I don’t see any large reservoirs in blue states waiting to be counted. Romney doesn’t have any large states with many uncounted votes left. He does have big leads in some small western states that are mostly uncounted, so I’ll throw in half a million extra votes for him from those states. Nothing is yet counted from Hawaii and Alaska, but I assume those two states will roughly cancel each other out. Adding it all up, I predict a final margin of about 1,500,000 votes for Obama, or roughly one percent of the popular vote. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176/25 "2012-11-07T10:54:35Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > ou appropriate the voice of God and then have him not understand the electoral college system? God would never vote for a baby murderer. Besides, Obama only really won 3% of the vote. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176/26 "2012-11-07T14:33:11Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > God would never vote for a baby murderer. Besides, Obama only really won 3% of the vote. \ ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176/27 "2012-11-07T14:48:32Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > To put some numbers on it: > > Obama currently leads by about 400,000 votes, according to CNN. > > According to my crude calculations, Obama stands to gain about a million more votes than Romney in California from the votes not yet counted. He should also get 500,000 in New York and 100,000 in Michigan. Other than that, I don’t see any large reservoirs in blue states waiting to be counted. > > Romney doesn’t have any large states with many uncounted votes left. He does have big leads in some small western states that are mostly uncounted, so I’ll throw in half a million extra votes for him from those states. > > Nothing is yet counted from Hawaii and Alaska, but I assume those two states will roughly cancel each other out. > > Adding it all up, I predict a final margin of about 1,500,000 votes for Obama, or roughly one percent of the popular vote. [Per CNN](http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/main?hpt=elec_flippertkr), the margin favors Obama by 2.6M votes as of this posting. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176/28 "2012-11-07T15:11:02Z")
All that said, I still wish we’d go to a popular vote to make everyone’s vote more relevant and spread the love (and political ads) across the country. Of course, I also would like to have electronic voting available from home, so what do I know? ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176/29 "2012-11-07T18:14:23Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > God would never vote for a baby murderer. Besides, Obama only really won 3% of the vote. Just curious. Have your postings the last couple of days been a bit of Colbert-ic satire, have you suffered a TBI or other personality-changing medical event, or has somebody hacked your SDMB account? Inquiring minds want to know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-how-the-republicans-dont-whine-about-winning-the-popular-but-losing-the-electoral-college/640176.md?page=1)