[smithmayowa]

This phenomenon and a host of other's happening in U.S currently are the reasons why trump was elected.

Edit: relax people I'm black not racist what I mean to say is that the rise of China's economy and the dwindling influence of whites in the sphere of things globally is what brought trump to power

[mullingitover]

I thought he was elected due to a peculiarity in the US election system that sometimes allows the person who got fewer votes to seize power.

[thrill]

If by "peculiarity" you mean "intentional design" to prevent tyranny of the majority, and by "seize power", you mean peaceful formal transfer of authority, then yes, you're correct.

[bena]

I thought Trump got 304 votes to Clinton's 227? /s-ish

You are complaining because Trump didn't win the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't matter. Winning states matter. Each state gets a certain number of votes that that state determines how to allocate to any candidate. Most states choose to give those votes to whomever got the most votes in the state.

It does not have to be this way.

Hell, we've had a president win the election that didn't win either the popular or electoral vote.

[Jayvino]

The US is a federal republic with founding fathers who knew that democracy is mob rule. The electoral college exists so the biggest states cannot vote in their own best interests, leaving small states automatically losing because they have less people.

California has the highest population state of 38 million people. Trump wanted to bring manufacturing jobs back to the Midwest. Californians will not vote in the interest's of the "fly over states"

https://i.imgur.com/2mlAy7N.png

[oh_sigh]

Everyone has a 'reason' why Trump was elected, but for some reason people can only see this in a post-hoc fashion. How many people were talking about 'the reason Trump will be elected' before Nov 8th 2016? It's easy to backport your beliefs onto known events, but you really have no basis for believing it to be a better than random predictor of the future.

[candiodari]

Here's one such person that seems to have a better claim in that regard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#2016_United_States...

It comes with bad news (last paragraph):

http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/07/30/the-turn-to-effective-but...

I frankly don't get what the problem is. The tax reform was a given (Ms. Clinton was also talking about it). The borders thing was a given (Obama was already doing most of it, including separating children by the way), and as for the wall paid by Mexico ... I'm not seeing it, nor do I see the chances in a good light. The trade war with China ... again ... started by Obama, and Hillary was certainly not talking about rolling it back. So again this would have been a difference in degree at best, certainly not a turnaround (and euhm ... I actually agree with the trade-war. The situation with China for the past 10 years simply cannot continue).

With Trump the rhetoric changed quite a bit. But that's about it.

[protonimitate]

How so?

[RIMR]

Because racists are terrified of the idea of non-whites making up a larger percentage of the population than they do currently.

[to_bpr]

It's this vicious rhetoric and finger pointing that lead to the election of Donald J Trump.

[candiodari]

You are getting downvoted ... one wonders what those people think. On the first sight you would think that those people would not want Trump to get elected (or re-elected).

But is doing that downvoting likely to increase or decrease the chances of votes for Trump ? I'm pretty sure it's increasing those chances.

So that brings the question ... are these people stupid ? Not wanting to discuss (and hopefully fix) the reason Trump got elected is not going to help.

Or, I guess, perhaps they're Russian.

[dangoor]

I'm assuming what they mean is something mentioned in the article:

> What does it mean for the political map? Some experts say that rapid demographic change became a potent issue in the 2016 presidential race — and helped drive white voters to support Donald J. Trump.

[s2g]

Does Trump inspire people to have kids?

[Eire_Banshee]

wtf

[AFNobody]

You are blaming the GOP (whose economic policies are the primary driver of low birth rates) for electing Trump. Good job!

[ElectricalPast]

I'm sorry but I strongly disagree that political policies generally lead to higher or lower birth rates.

Birth rates are largely correlated to the developmental level of a country at a more macro-level.

[AFNobody]

Disagree if you wish but it's mostly an economic decision.

[moomin]

On that basis we’d be expecting to see birth-rates go up.

[ElectricalPast]

How so?