9th November 2016, 6:10 AM
Looks like they have effectively won control of all three branches of government.
Nate Silver is examining where their models failed, and it looks like the biggest failure is the one we all made. We had no idea there were so many people in this nation that felt like strangers in their own land. Then they all voted like a minority block. It was as though Trump kicked through a rotten floor board and send countless deplorables scurrying into the light. They've been there the whole time, but it took Trump to mobilize them.
The third party candidate is already taking the blame as a vote spoiler, but it appears that his support was so spread out that even if all of them ended up going Clinton, it wouldn't have won her the electoral votes she needed.
On that point, a coalition of states is coming together to change their laws so that their electoral colleges are sworn to vote for whoever wins the national popular vote, not the state popular vote. This would effectively make the electoral college null and void, and merely an odd quirky step in the process rather than one that determines the entire result of an presidential election. Problem is, I remember hearing such rhetoric before, and nothing came of it. If anything good can come out of this election, the death of the electoral college is it, and that should be our focus.
As terrible as this result is, I'm fairly confident Trump is going to do something impeachable in fairly short order. At least then, we get a run of the mill republican president. We've handled that before.
Life is like a hurricane.
Nate Silver is examining where their models failed, and it looks like the biggest failure is the one we all made. We had no idea there were so many people in this nation that felt like strangers in their own land. Then they all voted like a minority block. It was as though Trump kicked through a rotten floor board and send countless deplorables scurrying into the light. They've been there the whole time, but it took Trump to mobilize them.
The third party candidate is already taking the blame as a vote spoiler, but it appears that his support was so spread out that even if all of them ended up going Clinton, it wouldn't have won her the electoral votes she needed.
On that point, a coalition of states is coming together to change their laws so that their electoral colleges are sworn to vote for whoever wins the national popular vote, not the state popular vote. This would effectively make the electoral college null and void, and merely an odd quirky step in the process rather than one that determines the entire result of an presidential election. Problem is, I remember hearing such rhetoric before, and nothing came of it. If anything good can come out of this election, the death of the electoral college is it, and that should be our focus.
As terrible as this result is, I'm fairly confident Trump is going to do something impeachable in fairly short order. At least then, we get a run of the mill republican president. We've handled that before.
Life is like a hurricane.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)