I am so, so, so tired of hearing about the electoral map!
When you turn on the news, you hear a lot about the electoral map because in order to win the election, a candidate needs to receive 270 electoral votes and that means that some states are more important than others.
Am I the only one who things that this is wrong?
It feels to me that I constantly hear about Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and North Carolina but I do not hear anything about California, Oregon, Washington State, Tennessee, New Mexico and so forth.
With our system of the electoral college, some states are getting more power and importance than others. It feels like some part of the country is being overlooked. Also, if your state is doing the all or nothing thing, like North Carolina where I live, if the state goes for one candidate but you voted for the other one, your vote is essentially thrown away. I want my vote to count directly for my candidate, regardless of how the rest of the people in my state vote!
This is how Trump and four other candidates before him were able to become President of our nation without winning the majority of the vote of individual people, the popular vote.
We no longer live in a society where an electoral college is needed to elect our president so we should abolish it and go to the more common system of voting that is being used in other modern nations, where every vote counts directly for the candidate you are voting for.
On another note: TRUMP IS SUCH A BLOODY XENOPHOBIC RACIST!
I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT ANYONE WOULD VOTE FOR HIM. ANYONE VOTING FOR TRUMP MUST ACCEPT THAT THEY WILL BE LABELED RACIST THEMSELVES!
There is no excuse, Trumps remarks about Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, saying that “SHE HATES OUR COUNTRY” are BLATANTLY AND OPENLY RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC, THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO LOOK AT IT!!
