Time to Do Away with the Electoral College

[Jabuutawi]

It is time Americans had serious discussion about national elections. State and local elections each vote counts, not so much at national level.

Think about this: Donald Trump won the election with less absolute and relative voters than Mitt Romney lost in 2012 -- that is the crust of the issue.

Edit: Thread was mistakenly posted to Somali politics subsection.

[Fortran]

State rights dictates the president to be chosen by the states. Raw total votes reward big states like California. Electoral college limits the ability for large states to run over the smaller states.

[Jabuutawi]

How Hillary Clinton's white voters melted away, excerpts:

The unraveling of the coalition that was supposed to carry Hillary Clinton to the White House had a lot to do with voters like Jim McAndrew in counties like Northampton, Pennsylvania. McAndrew, 69, a retired steel worker, voted Democrat in every presidential election for half a century. This year he stayed home. And Northampton County, a heavily white, heavily Democratic, largely working class area that backed President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, went for Donald Trump, a Republican.

"I hated both of them, so I just said, 'the hell with it,'" McAndrew said. His wife, also a life-long Democrat, went to the polls without him - and voted Republican.
"First time ever," he said

It's not that Trump's economic populism and "America First" messages generated widespread enthusiasm; he won some of those counties with far fewer votes than Mitt Romney captured as the Republican nominee in 2012. Nationwide, Trump's 59.7 million votes are about 1.2 million behind the 60.9 million Romney got when he lost four years ago, based on initial projections.

Galvanizing the "inner-white" at predominantly white churches against Muslims helped Trump, arguably, a godless being, to take evangelical votes, too.

In Gates County, North Carolina, Trump's vows to crack down on illegal immigration and police Muslim communities for radicalism resonated, says Eric J. Earhart, 49, pastor of the evangelical Upper Room Assembly church. "There has been a definite shift over the past eight years away from us being a Judeo-Christian nation," Earhart adds, and many congregants worry about that.

Finally, 20% of Latinos voted for the same person that wants to deport them and calls them rapists and criminals. Go figure!