President-elect Trump holds slim lead in Michigan

If the electoral votes of these states united are stripped away, what is there to unite?

U.S. 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has garnered 64,223,958 tallied votes by Wednesday morning, over two million more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, according to data released by the non-partisan Cook Political Report. Firstly, Trump has won on electors votes.

Mrs Clinton’s victory in the popular vote but loss under the electoral college has convinced many Democrats that the system needs to be changed.

The rebellious Democratic electors believe that if they can recruit a record number of so-called “faithless electors”, they can raise doubts about the electoral college itself.

As my colleague Andrew McGill wrote earlier this month, absentee and provisional votes are still being counted, now more than two weeks after Election Day.

Clinton ran up her popular vote total in large states along the coast, such as California and NY.

Defenders of the Electoral College argue that, without it, candidates would only campaign in a few big population areas, like Boston to New York, Florida-Texas, the industrial Midwest and the Left Coast. Presidential electors are not required to vote for a particular candidate under the Constitution.

If Trump does abandon his vow to appoint a special prosecutor for Clinton, it will be a reversal of a position he mentioned nearly daily on the campaign trail, when he dubbed his rival “Crooked Hillary”.

But lawmakers later felt that it was a good idea to set a specific date.

But Trump has been promising to unite the country around his presidency, saying repeatedly he will be president of “all Americans”.

USA presidential elections are essentially individual elections in each of the 50 states and the national capital city, Washington, with the victor in each state getting all of its votes in the Electoral College. The answer is – we don’t, until it happens.

Opponents of the Electoral College claim such outcomes do not represent how a democratic system should function.

In that election, Ohio Republican Rutherford B. Hayes lost the popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden of NY, with Tilden coming out on top, or so it appeared, in the Electoral College as well. The victorious Bush, however, carried 30 states to 20 from Gore and won the Electoral College by five votes.

Take note, these ladies are not a fan of Trump. Did Alexander Hamilton Create The Electoral College?

The unusual success of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog in The New York Times in the 2012 cycle caused a swell in the ranks of pollsters who emerged in the 2016 campaign. Watch Painter make his argument in the video below.

The impact of my son’s vote in presidential elections will soon increase almost two and a half times, and become equal to my own ballot.