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 have to keep in mind that Joe Biden acquired 11,110,258 California votes within the final election and we have to know and keep in mind that Donald Trump acquired 6,006,409 votes in that state.
Kamala Harris is on the identical observe as Biden in each survey and meaning she’s going to beat Trump by no less than 5 million votes in that state and she’s going to win the nationwide vote whole by no 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 she or he is clearly profitable by tens of millions of votes in every of these states.
That implies that Trump is assured to lose the favored vote whole once more by tens of millions of votes.
It’s not clear but if they will in some way create an electoral faculty win from these vote totals however it is vitally clear and completely assured for him to be tens of millions of votes behind to begin that course of.
Giant numbers of Individuals shall be extraordinarily offended 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 vast 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 technique to make up the California and New York numbers.
That loss is totally 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 had 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 most likely protest that end result with very seen descriptions of their unhappiness and anger and his capacity to steer credibly within the face of that anger will most likely be badly broken and clearly labeled with model damaging and clear description of what occurred.
It might most likely be higher for the nation if the electoral faculty outcomes adopted the precise widespread vote.
Election evening goes to be fascinating.
The large widespread vote win shall 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 gained’t should marvel or guess about these numbers at any level within the course of.
The information media must be prepared for that large widespread 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
