Houston, Texas vs. Evanston, Illinois.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

What's the significance of these two random cities?

Well, nothing, really, except to illustrate a point about the recent election.

Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote is around 2.6 million, which is about 300,000 people more than the population of Houston proper (not including the suburbs).

Meanwhile, Donald Trump's victory in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania combined is a little under 80,000, or around the size of Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Now, nothing at all against Evanston--home of Northwestern University and birthplace of Bill Murray--but it's pretty much dwarfed when you compare it to the fourth largest city in the entire country.

And those numbers further illustrate the bizarre spectacle that is American electoral politics.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Interesting comparison.

I also was born in Evanston, probably in the same hospital as Bill Murray.

[lunasun]

2. Just a random side note. Nothing to do with your point butI can't imagine there even 8000 out of 80k

in Evanston voting for trump it is pretty progressive but I could be wrong. I sure was wrong about who would win!
But read the article it has a letter to the trump Bannon WH that is good and affirming and where they plan to go as a community
http://www.chicagonow.com/riding-the-waves/2016/11/what-i-saw-and-heard-at-evanstons-post-election-community-meeting/

[First Speaker]

3. Looking back, I'm glad Kerry wasn't elected with a 3,000,000 vote shortfall...

...it would have been disastrous for the country, whether or not Ohio was stolen or not. Though, to be sure, had he been inaugurated with three million votes less than Bush, the GOP would have been a lot more amenable to abolishing the Electoral College...