PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Read the entire piece.
No matter what happens, it's certain we will all be considering the Electoral College for some time and what it means for our country.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/comments/2016/12/15/opinion/why-gop-electoral-college-members-can-vote-against-trump.html

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

We've considered it since America's founders wrote it into our Constitution.

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Perhaps, Dave. But in my lifetime I haven't seen the Electoral College and its responsibility under such scrutiny.

Whatever one's position, we certainly live in interesting times!!!!

Rinnai Loc: Japan

The Democrats are going nuts about Hillary winning the popular vote and Trump winning the Electoral College. They now want to eliminate the Electoral College because Gore lost to Bush and now Hillary lost to Trump.

The Electoral College was initiated by our forefathers for this very reason. These old guys were very intelligent and thought through the Electoral College and National voting consequences very carefully. They knew the citizens who lived outside the major cities and towns would not have a voice unless the Electoral College was instituted.

Democrats now hate the Electoral College. If they can eliminate the Electoral College they know they can "rule" the whole country by controlling the populations of major cities. The Democrats can accomplish their "Progressive Socialist" goals if they can control the votes of inner-city blacks, Muslims, Hispanics, and any other new refugees or immigrants whom depend upon the government dole. The only difference for most inner city people today from 1861 is the new slave owner is now the Democratic Party.

Most of the data below reflects only New York. You can only imagine what the numbers would be if you included the West Coast.



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There are 3,141 counties in the United States
Trump won 3,084 of them. (98%)
Clinton won 57. (1.8%)

There are 62 counties in New York State.
Trump won 46 of them. (75%)
Clinton won 16. (25%)

Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.

In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties, Trump won Richmond)
Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.

These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles. (Even less considering Trump won Richmond County.)
The United States is comprised of 3, 797,000 square miles.

When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those that encompass a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election.

Rivers

Long live the Electoral College!!!!!!

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

The EC isn't under scrutiny, it's under attack by sore losers.

EC delegates are being threatened with assassination. Their families are being threatened.

The EC is working exactly as designed, just like it did 4, 8, 12 (etc) years ago.