I am not actually having a psychotic break. I have made the decision, in the spirit of this blog, that I will write as if it is not true that nearly half the country voted for a neo-Nazi who doesn't care whom he hurts while enriching his own children.
This is unprecedented. The electoral college was unable to elect a single winner, after roughly three quarters of the country refused to vote or voted for a TV show character. Although Clinton won the plurality of electoral votes (and the majority of the popular vote), this three-party race split four ways. A candidate who was never discussed in this blog, Evan McMullen, won Utah, and the rest of the states divided roughly evenly among Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.
For the first time in United States History, the Electoral College has failed to pick a winner, and the decision will be put to the House of Representatives. In two weeks, on January 6, congress will meet in a special session to officially count the Electoral College's votes, and then THEY will select the president and vice president by majority vote.
This blog has primarily been about the political perspectives of candidates for president, so I haven't really talked about Congress much. Next week, I will bring you the likely candidates for president, given that congress is controlled by the Republican Party, which did not nominate a candidate for president this year.
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