Donald Trump beats Hilary Clinton in MI by 10000 votes

Campaign chairman John Podesta was sent to tell the Clinton crowd in Manhattan’s Javits Center to go home but assured them that every vote would be counted. The number corresponds to the seats a state has in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, plus the three electoral votes allotted to Washington, D.C. The magic number is 270, the bare majority required to win the presidency.

Covington said he has spent years defending the Electoral College precisely because it gives voice to the nation’s smaller states. This year probably was worse because exit pollsters don’t tally early votes, which accounted for 35 percent of the turnout.

Graham provided the transcript of one such email.

The Electoral College isn’t just undemocratic, as watching the second-place candidate in the popular vote become president-elect has reminded us.

Consider history: Following the election of 1968, there was a serious push for a constitutional amendment to move to a system of popular elections, though there had not been a constitutional amendment to change the electoral vote since 1804.

Would this system have made a difference in the last few presidential elections? Jeff Sessions as attorney general.

When the elector mechanism was established, citizens were more concerned with state identity – and thus state consensus – than some might be today, said University of Iowa political science professor Cary Covington.

Clinton privately conceded her loss to Trump that night, and hours later, she publicly conceded.

They would have to persuade 37 electors to reject Trump, which is seen as highly unlikely. They said that Trump lacks the skills necessary to serve as president.

For their part, Obama’s people think the effort is ridiculous. “They call us racist and unpatriotic if we do vote for Trump”.

Do we object to the two senators per state system, too?

Also, some scholars say the electoral college avoids the possibility of a long and contentious nationwide recount if the popular vote is extremely close. Up to that point there was no differentiation of Electoral College votes for a presidential and vice-presidential candidate. Write to us in the Comments Section and share your views on our Facebook Page. “Our nation depends on duly-elected men and women standing firm in their commitments to the Constitution”.

So, why the creation of an Electoral College? “We’re better than that”. They’ve urged supporters to accept Trump’s electoral-vote victory, even though her lead in the popular vote continues to grow, now approaching 2 million. Each presidential candidate has a slate of electors committed to them.

Without Michigan’s 16 electoral votes, Trump still totals 290 – 20 more than he needs.

It’s not unheard of for electors to go rogue, but it’s rare. Yes, there have been so-called “faithless electors”, and there very well may be again.

Electors cast their votes on December 19. A handful abstained from voting altogether.

We’ll watch with interest to see if the latest loss of the White House by the popular vote victor has any impact on the selection system.