the electoral system is to protect states from inability of vote access
USA is not a state but a Union of states,
so the electoral is a represented system to protect states with few thousands against the states with decades of million, from a possible bad weather or not going to vote
for example if a typhoon happens to Missouri and only few can vote, and good weather in California,
that would be unfair to Missouri voters, but electoral equates that with analogy of population
that is also why elections are Tuesday and not Sunday and always at November and after the first Monday of the month.
surely if USA changes her political system, like dismiis Senators and Governors then the electoral system must end.
consider 4 states
state A with 1 M people
State B with 3 M
State C with 6 M
state D with 10 M
states ABC vote candidate Z and D votes candidate W
there is a balance if everybody votes,
but a disaster happens at state C for example, and only 51% vote, but candidate Z wons the state
that breaks the balance, and is unfair for state C and candidate Z,
But with electoral system the balance is restored
anyway, I think the electoral system is fair, but for times of 1800, when was designed,
Maybe it is time USA to change their system, but in the same values.
now if Clinton had more votes?
well it is good weather in California at November,
if elections were summer times, maybe Trump would get more votes for example in Alaska
and Californians went swimming and not vote
Just to be clear, Yetos, the number of electoral votes is based on the number of representatives in Congress, which is in turn based population. So, New York State has 29 electors, but New Hampshire has only 4.
As to Melania Trump, she seems like a gracious woman and a devoted mother. The fact remains that she put herself on the market and sold herself to the highest bidder. Personally, I think it's rather sad that you guys think that's perfectly normal both for her and for him. Whatever you may imagine, a lot of women are not like that, even very attractive women. There are also a lot of men who don't want to buy a wife for show and for sex. As to her beauty, I think she was very attractive in her natural state, but now, after all the surgery and botox, she looks like a plastic doll. Her features never move when she talks. One of my friends described her as looking like a tranny, or an android, and I don't think that's far off. Plus, I also find her English very annoying. If you think that most Americans, especially women, think it's great to have a first lady like this, you're mistaken. That's not at all what I hear. As for me, I often judge men by their wives. His taste, in women as in homes, shows that he's a basically shallow, vulgar man, as well as an insecure one.
I would agree with Fire-Haired about what kind of people are often wildly successful either in politics or business, or in any field, really, although I won't use the phrase he used.
Many of them are not the sort of people you would want for friends. Most of those are able to hide their true nature. In Trump's case he's either too stupid or too arrogant to do it.
Oh...true story. A friend of mine has a friend who works for the company that did audio versions of both Obama's and McCain's books. She described them both using Fire-Haired's choice phrase.
In terms of IQ, the constitution requires two things of presidential candidates: that he or she be a U.S. citizen, and that he or she be 35+. This is a democratic country in the 21st century, not Plato's Republic. No elites get to decide what IQ is necessary, or degree, or anything else. Plus, I don't know why some of you assume that someone with a very high IQ would necessarily make a better president than someone closer to the normal range . As I wrote in another thread, after a certain base level other qualities are far more important.
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Historically, there is no correlation between academic achievement and success in the Oval Office. Some of the nation’s most fiercely intelligent presidents, including Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter, ran troubled administrations; two of the century’s most influential presidents were also among the least academically distinguished—Ronald Reagan did just well enough at Eureka College to keep his football scholarship, and Franklin Roosevelt coasted through Harvard with gentleman’s C’s. So it’s hard to know if the student is really father to the president..."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/11/08/dept-of-aptitude-walexandra-robbins
Ed. This rioting in the streets is creating a terrible backlash. If they want to ensure that Trump gets not just 4 but 8 years, keep it up. Does no one read history? What happened after the Chicago riots?
