By GEORGE HALVORSON
I’ve been railing in opposition to the Electoral Faculty (and the Senate) as anti-democratic without end, and nobody a lot cares. Seems George Halvorson observed–Matthew Holt
All of us must keep in mind that Joe Biden obtained 11,110,258 California votes within the final election and we have to know and keep in mind that Donald Trump obtained 6,006,409 votes in that state.
Kamala Harris is on the identical observe as Biden in each survey and which means she is going to beat Trump by not less than 5 million votes in that state and she is going to win the nationwide vote complete by not less than that many votes as a result of the opposite vote counts are principally tied and have many fewer voters than California.
The vote variations in different states like Arizona and Georgia are just a few 1000’s 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 complete once more by tens of millions of votes.
It’s not clear but if they’ll one way or the other create an electoral school win from these vote totals however it is extremely clear and completely assured for him to be tens of millions of votes behind to start out that course of.
Giant numbers of Individuals will probably be extraordinarily indignant and upset if he loses the favored vote by nearly ten million votes and one way or the other manages to get into the White Home with that vast loss and pretends that he truly earned that victory with actual votes. He’ll clearly be the largest loser on the favored vote as a result of there’s no approach 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 had been in opposition to Biden.
The individuals who see him lose by ten million or extra votes after which one way or the other 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 school outcomes adopted the precise widespread vote.
Election evening goes to be fascinating.
The massive widespread vote win will probably 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 must surprise or guess about these numbers at any level within the course of.
The information media needs to be prepared for that huge 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
