Electoral College needs to go

These electors vote for president based on their state’s popular vote results.

However, the host of the show, Chuck Todd, referred to Conway as a “sore winner”, pertaining to her Twitter bio which states “We won”.

But that’s what can happen in a republic, which the United States happens to be.

Embedded in our Constitution, the Electoral College is the system for electing our president through a slate of “electors” in each state, rather than by direct popular vote.

This idea was carried through to the Electoral College, where each state’s allocation of electoral votes is simply the total of its representation in the House and Senate.

Larger states – like Pennsylvania with 20 electoral college votes and MI with 16 votes – went to Mr Trump.

In 2000, when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election, then-senator-elect Clinton called for the abolition of the Electoral College, adding: “We are a very different country than we were 200 years ago”. The one thing I can concur with Trump on, however, is his claim about a “rigged” electoral system.

That fluidity is another characteristic of the Electoral College system.

The Democratic Party is seen by ordinary, working people as “caring about the cultural, managerial and professional elite”, she said, “not about them”.

The plan would require that 270 electors agree to vote for a presidential candidate that was not on the ballot. “And Bernie Sanders – I’d also like to publicly thank Bernie Sanders for his effect on our campaign because he softened up Hillary Clinton”. Just to note: Colorado and Washington state are both “binding” elector states-Washington imposes a $1,000 fine on those who change their vote, while Colorado replaces a candidate who “refuses to act”.

In Pennsylvania, Trump similarly won Erie and Luzerne counties, smaller metropolitan areas than sprawling Philadelphia and its suburbs, but with a higher white working-class population and unemployment higher than the state average.

Suprun will not be backing the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, however. Each state’s allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House, two for each state’s senators. US security officials have said they believe Russian hackers orchestrated the email hacks, something Russia has denied. Because each state delegates its electoral votes in a winner-take-all system (with the exception of ME and Nebraska), both candidates campaigned strategically. Of the 37,708 voters, 35,179 or about 93 percent of voters, voted for Trump or Clinton.