Do the reasons for the Electoral College still…

Republican President-elect Donald Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in Michigan by just over 10,000 votes, updated unofficial results from the Michigan Secretary of State’s office show.

Clinton, who lost the 2016 Presidential Election despite winning the popular vote, is the first candidate to see their popular vote lead increase to 1.5 percent after losing. A recent article in the Inquisitr showed how Hillary Clinton’s initial lead of 200,000 votes had increased rapidly after mail-in and absentee ballots were counted in states like NY and California, which have typically been Democratic strongholds. At the time, it was the largest advantage in the popular vote for a candidate who lost the Electoral College vote in the U.S. presidential election.

With the electoral votes of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – although MI is still outstanding – in hand, Trump exceeded the 270-vote threshold in the Electoral College, and that appears to have been the decisive factor in his election win.

Gallup, however, says American pollsters were not so wrong after all, arguing that this was a complex election since Mrs Clinton won the popular vote and Mr Trump won the Electoral College. “Nowhere else on Earth can someone win the popular vote and lose the election”, he said.

In the 538-member Electoral College vote, Bush got 271 to Gore’s 266.

Trump said in an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday that he would “rather do the popular vote” and was “never a fan of the Electoral College”.

What’s more, there’s no telling exactly what the outcome would have been in this election if it were based purely on the popular vote.

There have been various potential alternatives proposed to the current operation of the Electoral College. The electors will meet in December to formally choose the president.

” Donald Trump rode to victory on a voting surge”.

ME and Nebraska allocate two votes to the popular vote victor in the state, and one vote for the victor in each of the state’s congressional districts – two in ME, three in Nebraska. Trump had a completely opposite opinion just four years ago after Barack Obama’s win. “Campaigning is much different!” One is for other states to follow the lead of ME and Nebraska.

We have politically become two nations: The privileged swing states that elect the president and the other 40 or so states that are disenfranchised by their own predictability.

Although Trump may be trailing bigly in the popular vote, he’s claimed he would have been able to win by this metric if he’d needed to. Some activists and academics that formed a coalition are calling on US authorities to fully audit or recount the election results, particularly in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.