Clinton and the popular vote

There's been a noticible amount of complaining from people lately about the election results.  In particular, people are pointing out how Clinton won the popular vote, however, due to the electoral college, Trump won the presidency.  Many of these are subtle (and some, not so subtle) attempts to say that Clinton should be president instead of Trump because she won the popular vote.

But that's not how it works; Trump got the most electoral college votes and that's why he won.

To understand this, we need to ask the question: why is there an electoral college in the first place?

The problem with choosing a leader of a country that is composed of so many different states is that each state has different needs and challenges.  The water quality in the oceans is much more important to someone living in Seattle than someone in Wyoming, but at the same time, the cattle grazing rules are much more important to that same person in Wyoming than someone in Detroit.

So naturally, in a country as large as the USA, there are going to be differences of opinion, no matter who is running for president.  We need a system which tries to make things fair.

And this is what the electoral college was designed for; it prevents the situation where the majority of the states say "we do not want this person as president", only to have a couple of the most populated states effectively say "well, too bad for you" and then having their way because they have biggest population.

Why is this important?  Look at the biggest states by population: California (12.5%), Texas (8.6%), Florida (6.3%), and New York (6.1%).  In other words, 1/3rd of the US population lives in those 4 states. 

Imagine the scenario where you were living in a state like Ohio, but every time you voted for anything, you lost because the few large states always voted against you.  At some point, you'd have to ask the question: what is the point of being in the Union?  You aren't being represented or heard in government. The Union itself would begin to break down, because many states would simply not be represented.  A group of UNITED states needs to have a common ground and way of governing that is fair to all states involved or it simply won't work.

Otherwise, why wouldn't the smaller states just leave, or form their own government that has their interests in mind?  It would be a very difficult sell to the medium and smaller size states to remain in the Union if they never had a chance of getting anything they wanted from it.  And it would be ridiculous for the largest states to pretend this wasn't a problem.

The electoral college is set up to prevent the scenario where a couple of the most populated states want one person as president and can dictate to the remainder of the states who gets to be in Washington, because they have the most votes.

Now, looking at the election specifically: when Clinton announced her candidacy, her approval rating was just 15%. 

After a year and a half of the media portraying her in the most positive light they could, while showing her opponents as negatively as possible...

AND after the DNC actually rigged the primary in her favor...

AND after spending millions of dollars try to sell her...

Clinton's popularity rating was the same.  No one bought it.

Clinton was a corrupt career politican who would have lost to Joseph Goebbles, she was THAT hated by the majority of Americans.   There was literally no worse person that could have been pushed by Wall Street and the politican insiders.  The "It's my turn" attitude of her campaign just showed how arrogant she was, and she went so far as to show the American people how she had complete and total contempt for them by calling them a "basket of irredeemables".

And because she was so arrogant, she thought she could easily win by dividing the nation into neat little groups.  All of the division of the country that we see today: the riots, the anger, the political violence, the social media arguments, and the fighting?  Hillary WANTED it, because that's how she could win.  Why do you think she has been so quiet about the civil unrest since the election?  She created and unleashed this violent beast of division, but now she couldn't care less becuase it doesn't serve her political interest to stop it.  Quite frankly, she's also probably pretty terrified of it, and of what she has done.

On that note, if you don't like President Trump, you have Hillary to thank for it.  She is the one who told the media to push Trump in the Republican primaries, because she regarded Trump as the "pied piper candidate" who she could beat easily in the election.

Think about that for a moment: Hillary Clinton is the main reason that we have Trump as president today.  

And Hillary Clinton is the primary cause of the division that is rampant in our nation today.

So...  where are your complaints about HER?

If you look at the number of people angry at Trump in comparison to number of people angry at Clinton, it's at least 100:1, if not more.  And it begs the question:

Why does Clinton get a free pass after what she did?  Why shouldn't she be held accountable for it?

This is why most people aren't listening when you complain about Trump, but refuse to acknowledge the direct role that Hillary played in helping Trump become President.

And the original point is still this: the electoral college works.  New York and California are the reason that Clinton won the popular vote, but they would vote for ANYONE for president, as long as they have a "D" beside their name.  This just once again shows exactly why we CANNOT go by popular vote - because it would allow two states to dictate to the other 48 states who gets to be President, no matter what those other 48 states thought.

And that is EXACTLY the situation the electoral college prevents.

LKvi