Clinton beat Trump by a large margin, by electoral standards. A couple of percent is actually a lot these days. Yet so far it appears that Trump won the electoral vote, even though those votes are not yet cast and who knows what is actually going to happen.
But this year, strange as it it and stranger thought it may become, is not the strangest ever. That goes to 1876.
Wow.
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Secretary Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. The way the current Electoral College works, Trump won the Electoral Vote.
I've been thinking about the Electoral College, that mechanism by which voters in the U.S. indirectly elect their president.
As you know, there is interest in doing a recount for the presidential balloting in three key states. The chance that a recount in these three states would change Trump's win (290 to 232 electoral votes) is small.
The Christian Science Monitor reports on a plan to effectively do away with the electoral college:
The Electoral College must do the correct thing and that is to appoint Hillary Clinton POTUS since she has more than 2 million votes above the Republican nominee!
It truly is wrong for a candidate to be declared POTUS before ALL votes are counted and verfied!
This is why the Electoral College doesn't meet until late December to elect a president.
Trump is simply "the presumptive president elect" -- he lost the popular vote badly, and the Electoral College has not elected him (but is widely expected to do so).
Come on grow up!