By GEORGE HALVORSON
I’ve been railing in opposition to the Electoral School (and the Senate) as anti-democratic ceaselessly, and nobody a lot cares. Seems George Halvorson observed–Matthew Holt
All of us must keep in mind that Joe Biden bought 11,110,258 California votes within the final election and we have to know and keep in mind that Donald Trump bought 6,006,409 votes in that state.
Kamala Harris is on the identical monitor as Biden in each survey and meaning she’s going to beat Trump by not less than 5 million votes in that state and she’s going to win the nationwide vote complete by not less than that many votes as a result of the opposite vote counts are mainly tied and have many fewer voters than California.
The vote variations in different states like Arizona and Georgia are just a few hundreds votes however solely California and New York have million vote variations and he or she is clearly successful by thousands and thousands of votes in every of these states.
That implies that Trump is assured to lose the favored vote complete once more by thousands and thousands of votes.
It’s not clear but if they’ll in some way create an electoral school win from these vote totals however it is rather clear and completely assured for him to be thousands and thousands of votes behind to start out that course of.
Giant numbers of Individuals can be extraordinarily indignant and upset if he loses the favored vote by nearly ten million votes and in some way manages to get into the White Home with that massive loss and pretends that he really earned that victory with actual votes. He’ll clearly be the largest loser on the favored vote as a result of there’s no option to make up the California and New York numbers.
That loss is completely assured as a result of these two states are doing for Harris precisely what they did for Biden and they’re each even much less supportive of Trump than they have been in opposition to Biden.
The individuals who see him lose by ten million or extra votes after which in some way declare and win the White Home will in all probability protest that outcome with very seen descriptions of their unhappiness and anger and his potential to guide credibly within the face of that anger will in all probability be badly broken and clearly labeled with model damaging and clear description of what occurred.
It will in all probability be higher for the nation if the electoral school outcomes adopted the precise standard vote.
Election evening goes to be fascinating.
The large standard vote win can be seen very early as a result of each California and New York numbers are so inevitable and so overwhelmingly in opposition to him that we received’t must surprise or guess about these numbers at any level within the course of.
The information media must be prepared for that huge standard vote distinction as a result of we all know now that these numbers are completely going to occur.
George Halvorson is Chair and CEO of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding and was CEO of Kaiser Permanente from 2002-14
