Donald Trump has not been elected President of the United States

[Mr Quatro]

That's some map, Neal

The electorial college is usually just brought up when the election doesn't go their way ... oh wait a minute the democrats lost, uh?

[Sailor Steve]

That map is a very simplistic concept. The opposite argument is that land doesn't vote - people do.

[August]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

That map is a very simplistic concept. The opposite argument is that land doesn't vote - people do.

Actually it'd be more accurate to say that people don't vote for presidents, states do. People only vote to decide how their states portion of ballots will be cast.

[Oberon]

I wonder under a more PR based system how the third party candidates would fair. After our last election someone did a chart to show how it would have turned out if PR had been introduced beforehand, and UKIP would have done very well out of it (despite the fact that they campaigned against it back when the Lib Dems were proposing it) but under the current system they only got one seat.

Here's the Beeb article about it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32601281

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by August

Actually it'd be more accurate to say that people don't vote for presidents, states do. People only vote to decide how their states portion of ballots will be cast.

Sort of, but people still decide ... the EC people that is:https://www.yahoo.com/news/500-000-p...203109567.html

The Electoral College – which was first introduced in 1804 – is comprised of 538 electors. Each state’s number of electors is decided by its number of members in Congress, which is dependent on the state’s population. So, when American citizens cast their ballots, they aren’t directly voting for president – they’re voting for electors. This year, Trump took 279, to Clinton’s 228.