On the day after Americans chose Donald Trump over a woman who promised to defend and “build on” Barack Obama’s policies, a White House spokesman said he doesn’t know what message the voters were trying to send.
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Obama in 2012 received 65.9 million votes. More than half of those men – 54 percent – and 45 percent of those women voted for him. “They may have just blown it off”. She won the popular vote, according to the latest tallies, by 200,000 votes, but lost five crucial swing states that Obama won in 2012, blowing a hole in the blue Electoral College firewall. Another solution could be restructuring the electoral votes each state holds.
Some were branded resume lightweights: ex-governors George W. Bush of Texas, Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Ronald Reagan of California, among them.
And against Trump, Clinton was ultimately unable to convince a big enough slice of the American electorate the reality TV star was “temperamentally unfit” for the nation’s highest office. (Filipinas won suffrage in 1937.) While the US Constitution gave African-Americans the right to vote, various types of barriers were set, which were fully lifted only in 1965. They’re a protest vote. Perhaps most notably, in 10 northeastern counties, Trump piled up about 95,000 more votes than did Romney, flipping an area that Obama narrowly won, thanks primarily to the cities of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. The White House said it would organize two exercises involving multiple agencies to help Trump’s team learn how to respond to major domestic incidents.
“He was a candidate of white middle class millennials”.
But Tuesday, I was the naive one; I believed in an America that simply doesn’t exist, one fabricated from a social media bubble and wishful thinking. How hopeful can you be about inclusivity, when the majority of the nation has supported a campaign openly based on fear and division? We’ve had a very poor special relationship with President Obama. The easy-going, saxophone playing, scandal-hit president has his own chance to reconnect with the American people and to add another chapter to his formidable political career in this new and totally unprecedented role.
Trump’s 49 percent to 48 percent victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton was narrow.
What would happen if only millenials voted.
Voters casting their ballots on Tuesday did so with polls predicting Clinton would become the president.
The call for support was more for the institution rather than the person. According to Evan, millennials have recently overtaken baby boomers as the largest generation.
“The traditional groups the party relies on are rural voters and baby boomers”, he said.
“Every four years the white population decreases by two per cent, and the white non-college educated population decreases by four per cent”.
Two per cent might sound small, but it makes a huge difference.
Times have changed since the Electoral College was instituted in 1787, and some students say the system is outdated, needs to be reformed and may not properly reflect what the people want. The view, Trump said, was “really, really lovely”. As Clinton suggests, they’ll need strength for whatever comes next.
Trump’s final event at a local convention center was surprisingly staid, with none of the theatrics of an earlier rally in a packed arena in New Hampshire that featured laser lights and smoke machines.
FireFox NVDA users – To access the following content, press “M” to enter the iFrame. “GO FLORIDA!”, Trump tweeted before the state was won.
“I feel so disenfranchised now”. But, among the two-thirds of people who said things were “seriously off on the wrong track”, Trump took 69 percent.
Who are the young Republicans?
Out of the past five US presidential elections, the Electoral College has failed to select the president chosen by the people twice-a 40 percent failure rate.
Though Sanders may not have won the primary even without the Democratic National Committee’s opposing influence, people are right to wonder whether he would have triumphed in the general election given Trump’s connection to financially troubled white people.
Another surprise: Despite his denigrating comments about Mexicans and his pledge to crack down on illegal immigration, Trump also managed to win 29 percent of the Latino vote. The military was paying for his college. “I mean that very sincerely”, he said. They’ll preside over an economy that is improving but still leaving many behind, and a military less extended overseas than eight years ago, but grappling with new terror threats. She was impressed by his humility and had volunteered on his campaign. She also liked his respect for law enforcement. They are part of the human experience, and no president can take them away.
But you can see that we have failed to do our homework in institution building and structural reforms. “And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future”, said Hillary Clinton (D).
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I named Clinton the victor in each of three presidential debates – and I didn’t think any of the three were particularly close.
