The latest numbers show that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2.2 million votes and that apparently is gnawing at the president-elect who won a convincing electoral college victory, which is all that really matters anyway.
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A recent online petition demanding that Electoral College choose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump is close to receiving 5 million signatures, emphasizing the support that Clinton, despite her unpopularity among young voters, still enjoys among major factions within the Democratic Party strongholds.
Clinton, by winning more votes than Donald Trump – more than 2 million, according to many news outlets – would in any other country in the world be the president-elect.
“I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election – if I win”, Trump to supporters at a OH rally in October. Several petitions asking electors to defy the results of their particular vote and vote for Clinton have garnered millions of signatures, though the likelihood of that happening is nearly non-existent according to most political observers.
Earlier Sunday, Trump criticized recounts proposed for Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania that are being spearheaded by Green Party candidate Jill Stein – an effort that Clinton’s campaign said on Saturday it would join.
Democrats mostly dismissed the idea throughout the general election, although in the final days of the campaign Clinton rushed to Grand Rapids and Detroit, and dispatched President Obama to Ann Arbor in a futile effort to stave off the upset.
As of this week, Trump has 306 Electoral College votes, while Clinton has 232. Also, he points out that electors are chosen to follow the will of their states’ people.
Clinton, frustrated and still without an intention to concede, told her inner circle after Obama’s call: “Just give me the phone”.
The 538-member Electoral College decides the presidential election, not the popular vote. Many states allow so-called “faithless electors” to ignore their states’ votes and cast ballots for another presidential candidate without penalty. MI with 16 Electoral College votes is still “too close to call”, but will not alter the final outcome. Some promote eliminating the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote for president, while others believe the Electoral College should remain unchanged.
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“This suggests that at least some Republicans think they’re more likely to lose the Electoral College votes in Virginia in the years to come”, Farnsworth said of Cole’s bill. Write to us in the Comments Section and share your views on our Facebook Page. Deval Patrick, the long-shot National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would only take effect after a sufficient number of states to reach 270 electoral votes have passed it.
