Trump right about Electoral College

But there is one piece of the post-election conventional wisdom that is importantly right, yet in ways more complicated than we progressives might wish. That is not true.

Given that both candidates understood the election as a campaign to win states rather than win individual votes, the grievance provokes grievances.

Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, has introduced legislation to eliminate the Electoral College. But it must be done in such a way that the people who are being reduced never see it coming. “If you voted for Mitt Romney, you were really voting for the state’s four Republican electors”. Each state, except ME and Nebraska, casts all its votes for the victor of the popular vote in their state.

He has taken to social media in the past to express his disagreement and discontent with the Electoral College. Rhoades is well aware that some people are trying to get electors to change their vote, but that would be illegal.

It’s a simple method: Each state is awarded a number of electoral votes based on the number of U.S. Senate and House seats it holds.

The former NY senator added that losing the presidential election to Donald Trump has been a hard pill to swallow. The world could have been spared this unmitigated disaster, had there been no constitutional ambiguity about the democratic will of the people.

I recognize that our republic was never meant to be completely governed by majority rule. They succeeded, and gave us Trump. And Clinton lost Wisconsin by just 27,000 votes. He gets the golden ring. Despite Trump having been declared the president-elect, more than 4.3 million people have signed a petition urging Republican electors to cast their votes for Clinton – including singers Lady Gaga and Pink.

This never happened in the 20th century. Even if the United States did use the popular vote in presidential elections, that’s not to say the result would be any different. When Republican George Bush won the presidency even though Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000.

Hillary Clinton is reflecting on her devastating defeat, acknowledging the difficulty of her loss for her supporters and urging them to persevere through the Donald Trump era. That’s a larger gap in both the popular vote and percentage margin of victory over her opponent than John Kennedy in 1960, Richard Nixon in 1968, and Jimmy Carter in 1976. That alliance maintained its national advantage, as the popular vote shows, and came within a whisker in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and MI of delivering the election to Clinton despite an onslaught of partisan congressional investigations, Russian meddling and the last-minute political intervention of the FBI. Washington was one of the pioneers, passing National Popular Vote in 2009. He would have spent time and resources in the very blue states like NY and California. Hillary Clinton won the most votes. So there are 105 votes to go! It was fun on election night hearing all the talk about Arizona, New Hampshire and Colorado.

“I’m not going to change my mind just because I won”. Overall, though, the electoral college clearly inflates the votes of states with low minority populations and deflates the votes states with high minority votes.

Looking forward to 2020, that seems a reasonable goal. All votes for president should count, and all votes should count equally.