Voters asking electoral college members to change vote

The ballots are in, the votes have been cast, and the verdict is final-Donald Trump is the new president-elect, winning over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Trump was stuck at 254 electoral votes for several hours, with MI and Pennsylvania yet to come in.

“But as I said last week, our campaign was never about one person or even one election”. It would be a slap in the face to the almost 60 million Americans who voted for Trump. With most people suggesting that Hillary Clinton was going to win, many Republicans were just hoping to hold the Senate and the House.

Yes, Clinton’s lead with the popular vote continues to rise and a week after the election it stands at roughly 1 million votes.

In the popular vote, Clinton has won 62,829,832 votes compared to Trump’s 61,488,190, or 47.9 percent to 46.9 percent, respectively, according to an analysis from the independent Cook Political Report Thursday. “It’s up to each and every one of us to keep working to make America better and stronger and fairer”. In modern elections, presidential electors are often pledged to vote for the party that nominated them, which usually leaves no room for adjustments in set states.

Clinton’s comments came during a benefit for the Children’s Defense Fund held in Washington D.C. on November 16.

This election was the fourth time in US history that the actual votes of the people were ignored in favor of an Electoral College count. Since then, all 50 states elect their governors based on popular vote – but not the president. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. For example, Trump spent time campaigning in small-town North Carolina, a state he secured through obtaining moderate individuals’ votes. But Trump won 53 percent of the White female vote.

Trump would be the first Republican to win MI in a presidential election since George H.W. Bush won the state in 1988. The unfair, arcane Electoral College awards states to candidates in a winner-take-all system. California has the most, with 55. In addition, the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution allows the District of Columbia three electors. We must abolish the Electoral College. Trump’s popular vote percentage also falls short of the failed presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney, John Kerry, Al Gore, and Gerald Ford. It’s time to do away with the Electoral College.

Donald Trump was able to tap into the angst that too many Whites felt during the Obama presidency, and win the presidency in the name of White solidarity and White supremacy.

Trump won an impressive victory for sure, but an analysis of the voting results by Karl Rove in today’s Wall Street Journal points to a different conclusion: Hillary Clinton severely under-performed.

State electors from across the country will meet December 19 in each of their state’s respective capitals.