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Clinton's Lead In Popular Vote Exceeds 2 Million
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For the fourth time in American history, the Presidential candidate who won the most votes managed to lose the electoral college because of how those votes were distributed.
http:// www.pol itico.c om/stor y/2016/ 11/clin ton-lea d-popul ar-vote -2016-2 31790?c mpid=sf
Is it time for the Electoral College to go, or does it still serve a valuable purpose today as it did 200+ years ago?
Does this historic disparity mean that Trump should not take office, or would that be too damaging to the US political system?
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Is it time for the Electoral College to go, or does it still serve a valuable purpose today as it did 200+ years ago?
Does this historic disparity mean that Trump should not take office, or would that be too damaging to the US political system?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Icheria....please cast an eye over my link that explains how the EC works.
http:// www.huf fington post.co m/2012/ 11/06/w hat-is- the-ele ctoral- college _n_2078 970.htm l
In about half the States, the EC is obliged, by law, to vote for the candidate, in other States it doesn't. and in two States, some kind of PR is used.
So..... the EC is widely inconsistent across the country, thus allowing Trump to claim a victory where no real victory existed.
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In about half the States, the EC is obliged, by law, to vote for the candidate, in other States it doesn't. and in two States, some kind of PR is used.
So..... the EC is widely inconsistent across the country, thus allowing Trump to claim a victory where no real victory existed.
I didn't fully understand the link to be honest mikey :-)
It starts off talking about choosing candidates to be president and by the end is plainly talking about the presidential election but it wasn't clear to me at what point it switched :-)
It's bound to be complicated if you have 50 states plus one involved. All with their own systems
It starts off talking about choosing candidates to be president and by the end is plainly talking about the presidential election but it wasn't clear to me at what point it switched :-)
It's bound to be complicated if you have 50 states plus one involved. All with their own systems
The Electoral College works, if that's the right word, because it basically treats the people living in the US as less important than states. But that's not really a system of proper democracy, is it? I thought that returning power to the people was all the rage these days.
Also, OG with his usual guff about "FPTP is the best system", I see...
Also, OG with his usual guff about "FPTP is the best system", I see...
if the president would be chosen by five states, this is presumably because those are the places where most Americans want to live. I don't know why their residency choices should determine how much their vote is worth - that's how parliament and congress work, but in a straight vote between two (or however many) candidates for a single job, every person's vote could and should be equal.
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