<u+201c>hillary won this election, and when the votes are all counted, by what will likely be more than a million votes. so how come she isn<u+2019>t going to the white house in january?" michael dukakis wrote in an email to politico. | ap photo by gabriel debenedetti 11/13/16 01:08 pm est former democratic presidential nominee michael dukakis, who lost to george h.w. bush in 1988, re-upped his call to abolish the electoral college after hillary clinton<u+2019>s loss to donald trump on tuesday. <u+201c>hillary won this election, and when the votes are all counted, by what will likely be more than a million votes. so how come she isn<u+2019>t going to the white house in january? because of an anachronistic electoral college system which should have been abolished 150 years ago,<u+201d> he wrote sunday in an email to politico. story continued below <u+201c>that should be at the top of the democratic priority list while we wait to see what a trump administration has in store for us. so far, all we know is that dozens of lobbyists are all over the trump transition <u+2014> a strange way to drain the swamp." the former massachusetts governor<u+2019>s call echoes a sentiment expressed by none other than trump himself in 2012. when it briefly looked like mitt romney had won the popular vote, he tweeted , <u+201c>the electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.<u+201d> and, during the 2000 recount, clinton herself called for its abolishment. <u+201c>i believe strongly that in democracy we should respect the will of the people, and to me that means it<u+2019>s time to do away with the electoral college and move to the popular election of our president,<u+201d> she said at the time, shortly after her own election to the senate. <u+201c>i hope no one is ever in doubt again about whether their vote counts." dukakis lost the popular vote to bush in 1988 by 7 million votes, but since then, the democrat has won the popular vote in six of the past seven presidential elections, and clinton<u+2019>s lead is now up to over 700,000 votes with more still to count from democratic-leaning states like california, according to a count compiled by david wasserman of the cook political report. by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
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