Were were talking about individual votes, in which Trump received less than Hilary, not electorate votes.

But its a ridiculous point because that's not how the system works, so bringing it up is silly. All any POTUS candidate is trying to do is get 279 electoral votes, that's it.

Well aware of the electoral system in the USA. It was simply a comment that somebody can win the US presidency with a minority of votes. In many countries you need a majority of individual votes to win, which IMO would be a more representative form of democratic voting.

I agree a weakness is that she doesn't seem to have the interpersonal skills to press the flesh on an individual basis and use sheer force of personality to schmooze people into a common direction.

She's also not a master orator. But she's direct and clear, from what I've heard. It's easy to pick stumbles and flubs out of the speech of anyone who has to speak publicly a lot.

But since I don't tend to like the sorts of people who are good at that, I like May.

I think she's dreamy. Just a convenient foil to project all of the problem and issues of Brexit onto, as if the mess isn't a complete team effort across Britain.