Today is the
day that the electors from each state cast their votes for the next president
via the Electoral College. This is the
actual process that determines who will be president; not the popular
democratic vote.
Donald J.
Trump, who "lost the popular vote," as we have been reminded ad nauseum
from many of our brothers and sisters on the left will nonetheless be elected as
The United States of America's 45th chief executive today.
With all the
whining and confusion surrounding the Electoral College vs. the popular vote, I
figured it was worthwhile to take a look at the genius of our Founding Fathers
and why they set things up the way that they did. First, let’s look at a basic
short tutorial about the Electoral College that was excellently done by Prager
University:
Also, this
well-done short article explains why the Electoral College was so important in
this particular election. Essentially, it saves the rest of us from being
dictated by the far left goofy state of California:
"Clinton’s 2.3-million-popular-vote plurality over Trump depends on the votes in a single state: California. Clinton has more than a 4-million-vote plurality over Trump there. In the other 49 states plus the District of Columbia, Trump actually has a 1.7-million-popular-vote plurality over Clinton. So California single-handedly turns a Trump plurality into a Clinton plurality....
He also won the national popular vote cast outside of the single state of California. Moreover, Clinton won all of California’s 55 electoral votes despite the fact that 4.3 million of the state’s voters voted for Trump."
Without the
Electoral College, the presidency could very well be decided by the top
half-dozen most populous states, while the rest of the nation would be ignored
by presidential campaigns. That hardly
seems like a good way to unite the remaining 44 states with the "decider
states". A "Dis-united
States" would soon be the inevitable outcome of that debacle. Once again, our Founding Fathers' genius is
on display in our representative republic.
