Hillary Trump Dbq

A presidential candidate must win a total of 270 electoral votes to win the election. It is possible to win the electoral vote, lose the popular vote, and still win the presidency. This is because the electoral votes have supremacy over the popular votes. This is not necessarily a bad thing, however, because you can never have a tie with the electoral vote. With the popular vote, however, you can have a tie, because you can’t predict America’s population growth without the U.S. Census taken every 10 years.

Nearly forty percent of people will not vote for president. If people had to vote, this number could rise. According to www.electproject.org, voter turnout has hovered at around sixty percent for decades. With voting being such an important thing, you’d expect this number to be higher, and it should be.

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, yet Donald Trump is president because he won the Electoral College. The Electoral College is the system that the United States of America uses to elect the president and vice president. A couple of groups have a problem with how the Electoral College currently operates with people like Barbara Boxer, a California Senator, stating that “94% of campaigning by the presidential candidates in 2016 took place in 12 states. That was it. Two-thirds of these general election campaign events took place in 6 states.” (Congressional Digest, page 21). The idea that the Electoral College and presidential elections is ignoring the majority of the states has spurred different groups to attempt to reform the Electoral

Voter turnout is the rate by which people vote in elections. The simplest way to calculate a given election's turnout rate is to compare the actual number of voters with the voting-age population. “Voter turnout in the United States is among the worlds’ lowest.” (E.S. 371) The graph below taken from an article written for the Huffington Post in 2012, illustrates how poor United States voter turnout has been as compared to other industrialized nations. Our voter turnout

On November 9, it was announced that Donald Trump would be president. This essay isn’t entirely about Donald Trump, but rather about one of the reasons why he was elected: he’s not afraid to “tell it like it is” rather than worry about being politically correct. One of the complaints from the millions of people who voted for Trump is that America is too politically correct, almost to the point that it infringes on free speech. Whether this is true or not is debatable.

I believe that the low voter turnout in most elections is appalling. Why do people want to willingly give up their voice in our governmental system? Fewer than 37% of all eligible voters actually cast a ballot in the last presidential election. Many claim ignorance of political issues, but I believe that must stem from laziness. If people would

President George Bush often spoke that one of the main goals of his presidency was, to have a ‘new world order”. He never actually spelled out how this would be done, but the result would be, a lasting world at peace and America taking the lead in all global affairs. One way was to reduce trade barriers, which he thought would promote our nation as the leader in commerce and culture. He wanted to reduce taxes and government regulations between our country, Canada and Mexico. Many people feared this would cost America jobs, with no restrictions more American companies would use cheap foreign labor. Bush was right in that with satellite communication (The Internet) and improved delivery methods the next few decades eliminated global bounties

The 2016 presidential election was an example of the discrepancy between the Electoral College votes and the national popular votes. If the last presidential election had been decided by a national popular vote, then Hillary Clinton would have won the presidency because she had the majority of votes. However, due to the design of the Electoral College, Donald Trump won the election for president in 2016; although, he lost the national popular vote. Just as some people questioned the effectiveness of the Electoral College during some of the previous elections, several people questioned the effectiveness of the Electoral College again in 2016. The debate about whether the Electoral College should be kept or

In 2014, about 36.4% have been registered and can vote. In the article, “Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history-making moment at the polls,” by Annys Shin, Ben Miller had said,” I understand the apathy. How much of a difference will it really make?”, “ I’m still excited about the opportunity. The turnout is so low, even a small amount could make a difference.” He means that even many people who are not interested of voting, he is still happy that with this new voting age, it can increase the rates from

This election however wasn’t as close as the 2000 election. Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by a drastic margin in the Electoral College with 306 votes to Hillary’s 232.

When the results of voting on Election Day were released, Republican Nominee Donald J. Trump won the presidency with 290 electoral votes and 61,201,031 popular votes, compared to Clinton’s 232 electoral votes and 62,523,126 popular votes. Although Donald Trump lost the popular vote, he had won where it

Voting is a vital portion of conducting everyday life. Americans have more freedom than many other people in countries around the globe; therefore, it is pertinent to express that freedom in many ways. Up until 1965 when the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, many people of color, gender, and all other classifications in the United States fell under one umbrella: not having the ability to vote. (massvote.org) As far as Americans having the ability to vote, 218,959,000 people have the eligibility to vote as of August 16th, 2015. Out of that significantly large number, 146,311,000 are actually registered to vote. (statisticbrain.com) This large gap in people with the eligibility to vote, and actual registered voters, is very alarming. As an American, it is the right and duty of a citizen to exercise all attainted rights by voting in all elections, even if the favored party seems to lose to no avail. (theodysseyonline.com)

Voting is the most influential tool we have as citizens of the united states to make changes to our country, it is how we choose our local representatives, all the way up to the president. In 2014 the voter turn out was down to 49% of eligible adults, the lowest it has been since WWII. That means that more than half of American adults are not being represented, that is 124,734,356 people.

There are a number of reasons for low voting turnouts in the U.S. First, unlike the United States some nations have compulsory voting laws; not surprising they only enjoy voter turnout rates in excess of 95 percent. In some nations citizens pay a tax if they do not vote.

We as citizen get the opportunity to vote on our leaders for the community and country, but not all citizen actually vote during election. The percentage of the eligible voters that actually voted is called voter turnout. Within the recent presidential election, the voter turnout was 58 percent. So by the other 42 percent of eligible voters not voting the true outcome of all of the US citizen has not been included in the election. You would think if the entirety of the US citizens voted then the outcome of the election would have changed.