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Originally Posted by onwebcam
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You are making the assumption that one candidate could win 100% of the vote in those areas which is not the case. Let's look at the math. Using the numbers from the last election, we can assume it will take about 65 million votes to win. So, if we add up all the votes Hillary got in the 10 most heavily populated states in the US it comes to a total of around 35.8 million. She is still about 30 million shy of winning. Meanwhile, Trump got about 31 million votes from those same states. Keep in mind that Trump openly admits that he didn't bother campaigning or spending money in New York or California. Had he done that he could have gotten more votes from those states.
So, after the voting is done in the 10 most popular states, both candidates still have a long ways to go and they are going to have to focus their campaigns on the rest of the country and not just the major cities.
Also, your argument that there would never be a Republican president is moot because G.W. Bush won the popular vote in 2004 by about 3 million votes.