Anyone else regret voting for Trump?

[Cyran]

Pemalite said:

Mr Puggsly said:
I can't say I'm entirely happy with Trump, although there are numerous I do like he has done.

You should only regret voting for Trump if you think Hillary would have been better. Those were our options, Hillary and Trump. We knew Hilary would have been bad, so we had to take a chance on Trump.

But didn't Hilary get more votes? So really the people didn't choose trump.

I'm not terribly up to speed on the electorial process in the USA though. But I assume people actually vote for electors, which can deviate from the peoples vote, certainly not the most elegant way to make democracy work, that's for sure.

Half right.  We do vote for electors but for most part the electors did vote for who they was suppose to.  The way it work is each of the 50 states gets a certain number of electors base on the state population.  There some exceptions but for the most part who ever get the most votes in a state get all the electors vote in that state.

The way Hillary could win the popular vote but loose the election is in a lot of states Trump won by a small margin.  In a few states with huge popluation Clintion won by huge margins.  In most states winning by 1 vote or a million votes gets you the same amount of electoral votes.  This is how you get in a situration where you can win the popular vote but loose the election.

Funny enough the orginal intention of the founding fathers of the united states was acturally to give electoral voters more freedom to who they vote for to pervent someone to out of the establishment from winning.  That why they went with a electoral system rather then a popular vote.  In other words what allowed Trump to win was acturally design to pervent someone like him from winning.  It funny sometime how things like that work out.