Thursday, November 17, 2016
Hillary Wins Popular Vote
Everyone is freaking out because in the recent election, Donald Trump actually lost the popular vote, but won the election. In a recent interview he said "if the election were based on total popular vote i would have campaigned in New York, Florida and California and won even bigger and more easily. The electoral college is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is so much different".
Riots are breaking out all over the country because people believe the electoral college is flawed. This isn't the first time someone has won the popular vote and lost the election. In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote but ended up losing the election to George W. Bush. It seems like most people either don't remember that, or choose not to talk about it. Maybe the electoral college is flawed, but instead of rioting we should all come together and figure out what needs to be changed. Also the popular vote was actually pretty close, it's not like Trump got blown away, meaning almost half the country voted for him. As of now the final tally was 62,825,754 (47.8%) for Hillary and 61,486,735 (47.2%) for Trump. What do you think should be done to change the electoral college?
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I like this post. You are right, it is more interesting to see a small state have a big play during the election. You are right again with "come together". Americans don't need to whine and cry about the election, this time is for us to unite and keep improving America, not destroy it.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the electoral college was devised by our founding fathers with the intention that our country would continue to grow. They didn't want Philadelphia (at the time) to decide the election so they thought to incorporate all the states in some manner. It was a very interesting election nonetheless.
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