Donald Trump - POTUS

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Re: Donald Trump - POTUS

@GoldenAsif

Trump is the duly elected president as per the rules (electoral college votes) but Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost 2 million votes (cf. Al Gore)

Victory in one or two swing states (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois) would have been enough to win her the presidency.

Personally i believe that the electoral college system is flawed. In all but two states the winner takes all of the State’s Electoral votes (even if you win by the narrowest of margins say 50.5-49.5%; so 49.5% of people have no say!)

I think it should be %age votes x total number of seats in a state = Electoral college votes

Illinois is not a swing state and hasn’t been since perhaps Dubya campaigned in 2000? It was heavily won by Clinton.

Rust Belt lost it to her but unless Trump fixes things rapidly, a tall task for a guy who puts his name on buildings and goes to bankruptcy courts, a democrat can take over white house in 2020. It is also pertinent to note that if trump follows through with all the divisive stuff that he said that he would do then I can see him loosing in the midwest.

It is a case of imran khan in a sense that people voted for him in 2013 notwithstanding his pro-taliban stance or colorful past with a daughter to show off. Of course, he can’t be compared to the colorful character of Trumpt but then it is America vs. Pakistan.\

I also think the Obamas overdid their support of Hillary so much so that voters started seeing her as just an extension of his rule. Americans generally don’t like legacy or Royalty. They rarely vote for the same party thrice in succession, so it counted against Hillary. The only time it has happened in recent history is when Reagan’s two terms were followed by George HW Bush’s single term. The incumbent should stay neutral imo as he’s supposed to be representing all Americans and not just his own party.

Hillary actually embraced and pushed for Obamas’ support. It is a double edged sword in that hillary learned from Gore’s defeat when he didn’t tap into Bill’s popular support. I can bet that Obama would have won again because not only is he a good speaker but he has sharp people like Axlerod who know the pulse of the american people.

Obama was pushing for TPP, not for economic reasons btw, and hillary should have come out against it much earlier in the campaign. But alas, as they say, sometimes luck doesn’t favor you. She was “perfect” in 2008 but then came a black guy named hussain out of nowhere who stole her thunder and the presidency.