Senator Barbara Boxer efforts abolishing the Electoral College

“The electoral college apportions votes based on a state’s population”, said Len Lenihan, Erie County Democratic commissioner of elections. Boxer was a Clinton supporter.

Clinton won 63 percent of the Latino vote to Trump’s 39 percent.

Mr Trump said on Sunday this system was unfair and he preferred a simple vote. There’s been more than 700 proposals over the years to change the electoral college. She says in that election, Cleveland won the popular vote after winning six southern states in a landslide, but Harrison still won enough electoral college votes.

Can Donald Trump get what he wants? The first candidate who reaches a majority of electoral votes (270) on Election Day is deemed the President-Elect. Alexander Hamilton described the electoral college as “small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass” who are capable of selecting a victor with “discernment requisite to such complicated investigations”.

In contrast, Wyoming has 149,066 potential voters for each of its three electoral votes, making a vote in Wyoming almost four times more powerful than a vote in Texas. It is they, ultimately, who determine the President and Vice President.

Trump also tweeted that he’d have been successful even under a popular vote system, since he would have campaigned in different places, focusing on California and NY, “and won even bigger and more easily”. The West Coast votes are still being counted, but by some estimates, Clinton may very well end up with a popular-vote advantage of about 2 percentage points.

“In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted, ‘The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy, ‘ ” Boxer added.

Trump enters the White House with the enormous enmity of millions of Americans who are aghast at his conduct on the campaign trail for the past year and a half. He said women might have to travel to different states for abortions if the pro-life Supreme Court judges he appoints overturn an old verdict on this.

Thanks to the fact that most states are safe for one party, it has become far more likely that the electoral result won’t mirror the popular one.

Most political operatives agree that like it or not, the electoral college is here to stay. Why is the victor decided state by state instead of by the nationwide popular vote? “However, all ballots, including absentee ballots, are counted in the final totals for every election – and every vote (absentee or in-person) counts the same”.