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Why the Electoral College Trumps the Popular Vote for Hillary Clinton Lady Tigers Win CUNY Volleyball Championship (p.18) The Jacket from Volume XIX. No. 100 November 2016 Dachau (p.10) Why the Electoral College Trumps the White Women Popular Vote for Hillary Clinton Who Voted BY Soham Chakraborty Trump Donald Trump has been elected as of the people. Although the national popular little transportation and communication BY Glyne Harper the 45th President of the United States vote is calculated, it is distorted and often infrastructure connecting them. Large-scale of America. The Republican candidate misrepresented by the Electoral College national political campaigns were simply With Donald Trump’s recent and won the necessary 270 electoral votes. process. not practical or feasible. unexpected election to the presidency, news outlets have been trying to find out how he However, Democrat Hillary Clinton won The United States Electoral One of the concerns was that urban managed to win. Sites like the Boston Globe, the popular vote, receiving 60.1 million College was established in 1787 by the centers with a greater flow of information New York Times, and CNN have pointed to votes to Trump’s 59.8 million. This has now Constitutional Convention as a compromise would give candidates in these regions an the fact that Trump got 53 percent of white occurred five times in our nation’s history, between election of the President by a vote unfair advantage. The founding fathers also women who voted to vote for him. Yet prior most recently in the 2000 election in which in Congress and election by popular vote. believed that much of the population would to the election, a Gallup poll released on Al Gore received the majority of the popular This was a time in which the country was in be uninformed and unqualified to vote April 1 found that seven out of 10 women vote, but was defeated by George W. Bush, its infancy and the political landscape was directly in a presidential election. They had had a negative opinion of Trump – which who won the electoral vote. very different. This system was intended little confidence in the people of the time, at the time seemed unsurprising, given the Due to the Electoral College, it is to address problems that have vastly and fearing that a shrewd politician could recording of him gloating about committing theoretically possible for a candidate to win evolved or no longer exist in modern times. take advantage of them (perhaps rightly sexual assault. the presidency with as little as 23 percent of The United States at the time consisted so) created the electoral process to mitigate the popular vote. The presidential election of 13 loosely amalgamated states with these perceived risks. Who are these these women who still is not a direct democratic process and may approximately four million citizens spread view Trump in a positive light after so many not truly represent the will of the majority along the Atlantic seaboard. There was very continued on page 2 continued on page 2 Trump Wins the Presidency More Than Ever, Students Are BY Nikita Jones Speaking Up On Tuesday, November 8, everyone about the Burden across America was doing one thing and one thing only, sitting by their television of College Tuition with bated breaths awaiting the results of the Presidential Election. Some of us may BY Nirvana Simon have went to bed not knowing the results while others myself included, waited all As a college student, ask yourself, how night to see the outcome! Well here it is: much does your education really cost? Many Donald J. Trump won the Presidential students wonder to themselves, why do we Election with 276 electoral votes. have to pay for school? When it is time to From the beginning of the tallying register for classes, college students often of votes Clinton and Trump were neck to find it overwhelming to think about financial aid. We all know the infamous line in the financial aid office where we wait to find Inside the out how much we have to pay or when to expect our refund checks from TAP. Along Communique And the winner is... - Credit: Gage Skidmore and Krassotkin with concerns for maintaining good grades, they also have to worry about being able to neck, with Trump leading by only a few that “Democrats were far more dependent attend school. One of the questions echoed electoralvotes, it was a close call. For the on white working-class voters than many Election/National page 1 by college students everywhere is why is first time in history a non-politician ran and believed.” tuition so high? won the Presidential election. It was also Campus News, page 4 Donald Trump made his victory speech Many students are pressured into the first time that it took all night to declare at his headquarters in New York, which balancing a part-time job while attending Local, page 6 the winner due to the fact that many swing was broadcasted on all major US and college and that is known to induce stress. Science/Tech., page 9 states were too close to call. international news networks. In his speech Many prestigious universities have provided Arts, page 10 According to the New York Times, the he thanked all his supporters and his family therapy services for kids who are feeling reason Trump won was “by riding a big for supporting him and he also graciously overwhelmed by the pressure of classes. All Lifestyles, page15 wave of support among white working- said that Hillary “...fought very hard...we this magnitude of stress leads to breaking Sports, page 17 class voters.” He also won many swing owe her a major debt of gratitude for her under pressure and dropping out of college states like Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, service to our country.” Trump ended his to pursue working full time. Opinion, page 19 Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which had the victory speech with saying “...hopefully you continued on page 5 most electoral votes. The Times also noted continued on page 2 2 Queensborough Communiqué, November 2016 Election/National Why the Electoral College Trumps the Popular Vote for Clinton continued from cover page While these may certainly have been and each Senator. The District of Columbia The Supreme Court has confirmed in discrepancies in the electoral process. valid concerns at the time, critics argue is treated as a state for electoral purposes several landmark cases that the states are Voter registration and turnout is that the information age we live in has and is allotted three electors. The number of individually responsible for deciding their strikingly low and voter turnout in the US made them obsolete. Availability of and representatives is adjusted once every ten electoral processes and that there is no has lagged behind most other developed access to information has never been years, following the national census held obligation at all to include a popular vote. democracies. The electoral process gives more prevalent. Political campaigns can at the beginning of each decade. However, Moreover, there is no Constitutional disproportionate voting power to states. extend to every corner of the country. The population shifts throughout the decade are provision or Federal law that requires Less populated states have more electoral political and historical contexts for which unaccounted for. electors to vote according to the results votes per person. This results in campaigns the Electoral College was developed are no This process means that the allocation of the popular vote in their states. In fact, that are centered around “swing” states and longer relevant and have not been so for a of electoral votes always over-represents electors can be influenced to pledge their tend to ignore states that lean left or right. long time. some states and under-represents others. vote to a particular party. The state laws Many Americans do not bother voting The Electoral College as it exists today For example, in the election of 2000, the concerning this practice vary. Only about because they believe their votes will not consists of 538 electors, with a majority electoral votes represented the population half of the 50 states have provisions make a difference-and in many cases, they of 270 required to elect the President. distribution recorded in 1990, a full decade against so-called “faithless electors”, those may be right Each state is allotted one elector for each earlier. There are many irregularities among who go against the state’s popular vote. member in the House of Representatives states concerning the electoral process. These inconsistencies only make way for Trump Wins the Presidency continued from cover page will be proud of your President…. and I love this country.” the concerns of the people, “Americans are vulnerable right now, in need of feeling secure Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta sent their supporters home after a long from all these attacks and killings.” On the question of why Hillary lost, she said that night of waiting, many left with tears in their eyes from their headquarters, which was also America is not ready for a female President, “...as bad as that sound[s] this country is…. in New York. Right after sending her supporters home, at 2:45am, Hillary made the call to male dominated.” On the issue of immigration she stated that the new President should find Trump to concede the Presidential election. a way to legalize undocumented immigrants so that they can pay their taxes, which would I had the opportunity to interview students at Queensborough Community College make them productive citizens. and their reactions on the election. When students were asked how they felt about the new Donald J.
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