An interactive and visual illustration showing how either candidate can win the Electoral College.
With the US 2024 Presidential Election between sitting President Joseph R Biden and former President Donald J Trump coming up on November 5th, I figured I would feature this interactive map, which uses 538’s data. It provides a visual way to illustrate how either candidate can win the Electoral College.
Also, I personally feel the Electoral College is archaic and was built upon the principal of inequality. It is also the only reason George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump even got elected in the first place; neither had the popular vote.
I could write an entire essay on how the US and the world would be better off without the Electoral College, but I would just be preaching to the choir and probably nobody would bother reading it (lol.)
The Electoral College failed its purpose in 2016
Yes. Though, I would argue it failed five times so far:
- 1824 (President John Quincy Adams)
- 1876 (President Rutherford B. Hayes)
- 1888 (President Benjamin Harrison)
- 2000 (President George W. Bush)
- 2016 (President Donald J. Trump)
Edit: Today, I cannot spell.
“today” is spelled correctly
Lol fair enough. Corrected.
