With 92 percent of the vote tallied, Secretary Clinton leads Trump in the popular vote by 230,000 votes, and that gap is expected to widen. That doesn't change the outcome, but proves that the inevitable talk about a 'historic mandate' from that sleazemeister campaign director Kellyanne Conway and others is just more Trumpian bullshit. Clinton, not Trump, was the American people's actual pick -- but that's just not the way the electoral mechanics works. As always, ending the recurring embarrassment of the Electoral College putting into office someone who was not the nation's majority or -=even=- plurality choice will not happen, because the prevailing faction always feels an incentive to preserve and perpetuate the election mechanisms that put them there.