Electors nearly always follow the vote in their state

Due to their bad choice of candidate, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton lost the vote of the Electoral College for the White House to Republican Donald Trump, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

That led to the Twelfth Amendment, requiring separate votes in the Electoral College for president and vice president.

Boxer, who is Jewish, did not seek re-election in 2016 and will retire at the end of this year. The Electoral College may be dated and anti-democratic to me, but it’s still the law of the land (though definitely, definitely needs to be changed, from my perspective).

Magarian also thinks an existing effort to sidestep the Electoral College, the National Popular Vote, is a longshot. Meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton received nearly 1 million more votes nationwide than Mr. Trump did.

But that doesn’t change the fact that he won the election fair and square under the system our country has followed for generations. He may not have won these very liberal states, but he would have garnered a much larger share of the popular vote in these states and would still be the President – Elect. Tens of millions of Americans, as well as the leaders of our European allies, worry about the direction President-elect Trump will take the United States after he is sworn in. President-elect Trump won the Arkansas vote; so all six electors are awarded to him. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) In another 71 cases, electors changed their votes because their candidate died before the Electoral College met to vote.

Various reasons exist for the creation of the Electoral College, with the need for an election to be decided by more qualified citizens most commonly cited. It is because of the antiquated Electoral College, which has a twisted and troubling history.

Each of the 50 USA states-plus the District of Columbia-determines by local law how the electors are to be chosen.

Mr Trump, busy with his transition and talks with foreign leaders, said he would have won anyway.

Trump is not the first, but the fifth, person to win the presidency but lose the popular vote.

The Electoral College resulted as a compromise from this debate.

It’s been an extremely divisive election, and a lot of people this year are having trouble accepting the outcome.

Besides Trump and Bush, the list of presidents who lost the popular vote includes John Quincy Adams, Ruther B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison.

Retiring California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer will introduce a Senate bill that aims to eliminate the Electoral College and have the presidential elections be dictated by popular vote.

Trump won the Electoral College but is behind by almost 840,000 votes nationally. However, the victor does not always correspond to the candidate who won the popular vote.

Trump’s extremely anti-Hispanic rhetoric hurt him among Latino voters, yet didn’t hurt him in the Electoral College.

“This morning, he tweeted that the Electoral College is ‘actually genius, ‘” according to CNN. It was a system created to override the will of the people, which is much like “superdelegates” in the Democratic National Committee. Smaller states and rural areas are already ignored, and defenders of the current system are misguided in worrying about candidates “camping out” in big cities to win more votes under a popular vote system. There are 538 electors.

Under the Constitution, the House of Representatives decides, with each state delegation casting a single vote for one of the top three vote-getters.