Is school out for the Electoral College?

Of course, these votes were counted, but anyone with a minimal knowledge of USA politics could have guessed that California would vote Democratic in the presidential election (Clinton won it by 29 points) and that West Virginia would go Republican (Trump won by almost 42 points). Eventually, I, like others, accepted the premise it was more important to highlight Trump’s sexism and bigotry than Clinton’s credibility on e-mail matters or the Clinton Foundation.

In response, some Democratic electors have banded together in hopes of eliminating the Trump majority before the electors officially cast their ballots in December. If it happens that Donald Trump falls short, the House of Representatives decides. They are actively stoking the flames of Clinton supporters who believe the election outcome is not legitimate.

Democrats have now won six of the last seven presidential popular votes but only won the presidency in four of those elections.

But Trump said that he wanted to move on and was “not looking to go back and go through this”. In these states, it is perfectly legal for electors to switch their vote. But he said he would be “phasing” control over to his grown children, although “in theory I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly”.

“The only way that the Electoral College will change is through constitutional amendment, and that is a non-starter in many states”, Professor Curry writes. “This would give us an equal voice”. If those votes had gone to the 69-year-old Democrat, she would have been president-elect. If Clinton had won these three states, even without Florida, North Carolina, Iowa and OH, she would have won 278 electoral votes; eight more than needed to win.

But the bill died, despite Malloy’s support, in 2014.

“The Kremlin probably expected that publicity surrounding the disclosures that followed the Russian government-directed compromises of emails from USA persons and institutions, including from United States political organisations, would raise questions about the integrity of the election process that could have undermined the legitimacy of the President-elect”, a senior administration official said. “It should be victor take all”. She talked about her career in public service, but never acknowledged that despite the best of intentions, some government programs just don’t work.

You need 270 electoral votes to be elected president. As much as the abolitionists before the Civil War liked to talk about the “proslavery Constitution”, this was more of a rhetorical posture than a serious historical argument. By amendment, the District of Columbia, with a population that would only warrant one representative, receives three electoral votes as if it had two senators. He lost that year to John Quincy Adams. It happened two more times, in 1888, Benjamin Harrison received 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168, winning the presidency. And mail-in voting is about the most direct contact a person can get.

In 2000, George W. Bush was declared the victor of the general election and became the 43rd president, but he didn’t win the popular vote either.

How do the states get their assigned Electoral College vote count? Now in the recent election, Hillary Clinton triumphed nationally by 200,000 votes and will see Donald Trump take the oath of office, another miscarriage of democracy.