Trump says he’s considering keeping parts of Obamacare

Clinton had won more popular votes, but less votes in the electoral college which stopped her from becoming the first female president. In order to avoid bigger states from completely dominating American politics and providing safeguards to minority states while also not trampling on the rights of bigger states by giving minority states undue advantage, the electoral college was devised to balance this contentious state of affairs. Not for this election anyway.

“We now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed”, Obama told his successor. Clinton could not muster anywhere near that level of voter turnout, but turnout for her was still higher than either of the other two 21st century Democrat nominees – nearly 1 million more votes than Kerry and 9 million more than Gore.

But fear not America, there’s a reprieve from this chaos and a way to change the result.

Trump’s repeated attacks on the law were a central focus of his campaign, using it to needle rival Hillary Clinton, as insurance premiums rose for some enrollees in battleground states. In most states, the victor of the popular ballot gets all that state’s electoral college votes (unless members of the electoral college choose not to vote for them – but let’s not get into that for the moment).

Donald Trump handily snagged the white vote at all angles, as is typical for a modern Republican presidential candidate. It made intuitive sense.

It was a compromise between the popular vote and congressional selection of the president and vice president, but it also offered increased representation to white slaveholders in the South who were outnumbered by their white counterparts in the North.

The real-estate mogul had glowing praise for former president Bill Clinton, also, saying “He couldn’t have been more gracious”, in a phone call the two men had after Trump won.

“I like those very much”, he said.

“Because you’d be in jail”, Trump shot back.

“And if we thought that Barack Obama was two steps ahead electing the first African-American president, this is 50 steps backwards”. Plus, even if the electors don’t like Trump, voting for Hillary is a completely different beast altogether.

The petition says that “Mr. Trump is unfit to serve”.

And then there’s the follies of going to a popular vote. Among the Trump campaign coterie, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani had the highest favorable rating at 48 percent.

“All of the motivations are irrelevant, but we still have the system”, he said.

The last time the electoral applecart was upset in this fashion was in 2000.

The final tally there gave Clinton only a 42,951 vote victory-1.4 percent of the votes cast in the state.

Speaking of Trudeau, like Trump and Clinton, he’s down with electoral reform, but that was before getting elected. However, there is an effort underway to get around the winner-take-all aspects of the system without abolishing the Electoral College.