US Elections - Boring or Important to Aust?

[mostly_broncos]

Originally Posted by cheap

It is simple, first past the post per state gets all of that states EV's.

EV's are based on the total population of each state. Thus California with a gazillion people counts for 55 EV's, where as a less populous state like Alaska gets 3 EV's.

Clinton winning California contributed almost single handed to her popular vote numbers, she also got 55 Californian EV's, but the county map of the USA (blue V read) shows exactly why she lost. Blue Square mile V's Red Square mile is where the democrats got pounded. This is exactly the mapping here in Australia, where much of the Australia volume votes coalition. All Trump needed to do is retain the 2012 republican sates and turn around a few states to win. He turned around 5 previous democrats states into republican states.

BTW: So many people have had a gut full of Clinton/Obama. 42-46 Million people living day to day off food stamps for the last 8 years may be an indicator of how utterly hopeless Obamas/Clinton policies were.

Not to mention that republicans in California are well aware they aren't going to win so they stayed home. My state went 60% for Clinton but I voted against her anyway for spite. I saw a county map color coded for candidate and judging by the location of the blue counties a little global warming sea level rise will float half of the democrats away.