The 2016 Presidential Election Is Over

Written By:  Andrew Eide

The 2016 Presidential Election is over. Donald Trump won the election by obtaining close to 100 Electoral Votes more than Hillary Clinton did. However, to be honest as I always am, Hillary managed to garner about 100,000 more Popular Votes than Trump did.

Immediately the Democrats and Liberals whined that was unfair. I will address that in a moment.

The way the Presidential Election system works is Electoral Votes are assigned based on how the candidates do in each State. Trump received around 320 Electoral Votes to Hillary's 228 or thereabouts. But Liberals want to nullify the election and go by Popular Vote only and have Hillary as President.

Not so fast. There have been a few occasions where the Republican Presidential candidate received more Popular Votes but lost with the Electoral Votes to the Democrat Presidential candidate. Nobody whined about it from the Conservative and Republican side as we understand how the system works.

Let's look at the election map for 2016 shall we? Hillary Clinton won, I believe, 12 States, while Trump won 38 States. Should someone become President when they barely won one-third of the States? And it gets more interesting when you see which Counties Trump and Hillary won. Hillary won about 10 percent of the Counties in the United States while Trump won 90 percent of the Counties. Should a person who won elections in only 10 percent of the Counties in the United States be installed as President?

This is why our Founding Fathers came up with the Electoral College system to prevent 10 percent of the people from deciding for the remaining 90 percent. But before you bitch me out I want you to know that I support going by straight Popular Vote only and doing away with the Electoral College voting system.

However, since the Electoral College system is in the Constitution we need to have Congress draft a Bill to ask for an Amendment to the Constitution to make it that Popular Vote only is the deciding factor to elect a President. So if you feel the same way please contact your Congressman and Senators and let them know how you feel. If enough of their Constituents tell them to make the change, and they realize if they don't make the change they will not win reelection, they will draft the Bill and soon we will have a Popular Vote only system for electing a President.