{"id":6907,"date":"2016-11-13T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T03:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2016-11-13T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T03:59:50","slug":"hillary-clinton-likely-received-more-votes-than-any-presidential-candidate-beside-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/13\/hillary-clinton-likely-received-more-votes-than-any-presidential-candidate-beside-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Likely Received More Votes Than Any Presidential Candidate Beside Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nate Cohn of the <em>New York Times <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nate_Cohn\/status\/796409592708268038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimates<\/a> that when every vote is tallied, some 63.4 million Americans will have voted for Clinton and 61.2 million for Trump. That means Clinton will have turned out more supporters than any presidential candidate in history except for Obama in 2008 and 2012. And as David Wasserman of <em>Cook Political Report <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/133Eb4qQmOxNvtesw2hdVns073R68EZx4SfCnP4IGQf8\/htmlview?sle=true#gid=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes<\/a>, the total vote count\u2014including third-party votes\u2014has already crossed 127 million, and will \u201ceasily beat\u201d the 129 million total from 2012. The idea that voters stayed home in 2016 because they hated Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is a myth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2016\/11\/11\/did_clinton_fail_to_turn_out_registered_democrats.html\">Hillary Clinton Likely Received More Votes Than Any Presidential Candidate Beside Obama<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Cohn of the New York Times estimates that when every vote is tallied, some 63.4 million Americans will have voted for Clinton and 61.2 million for Trump. That means Clinton will have turned out more supporters than any presidential candidate in history except for Obama in 2008 and 2012. And as David Wasserman of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/13\/hillary-clinton-likely-received-more-votes-than-any-presidential-candidate-beside-obama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hillary Clinton Likely Received More Votes Than Any Presidential Candidate Beside Obama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}