re: If Hillary wins the popular vote...

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Winning the popular vote is meaningless. Few Presidents in recent history have done that. Get over it.

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I just checked. In the 1932 election with the country in the depth of the Great Depression, FDR only got 57% of the vote. That was the most ever.

Winning by razor thin margins is pretty much the norm.

1992 - Bill Clinton won the election to serve as the 42nd President of the United States by a wide margin in the Electoral College, receiving 43% of the popular vote against Bush's 37.5% percent and Perot's 18.9%. It was the first time since 1968 that a candidate won the White House with under 50% of the popular vote. Only Washington, D.C. and Clinton's home state of Arkansas gave the majority of their votes to a single candidate in the entire country; the rest were won by pluralities of the vote. - wiki

In 1860 Lincoln handily won in the EC but garnered only 40% of the popular vote.