In the wake of the 2016 election, I have found myself pondering a few new topics. The topic of “Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton” and how this is impacting political races throughout the US. I think it is a good time to talk about how to better understand the different ways that people are going to vote and influence elections in the future.
One thing that is easy to overlook is that the two candidates are very different in many ways. In terms of experience, they both have a long history of public service. Clinton has been involved in politics since she was a teenager. However, she is far more experienced on all levels than Trump. Because of this experience, she is more likely to have a better grasp on all the issues facing the country.
While this is a very important point, I am not sure why you would think that it is relevant to the discussion of whether or not one should vote for a candidate. The real answer is that it is irrelevant because even though they are very different, they both have experience. Clinton is a politician, whereas Trump is a businessman. Neither one of them has the experience to go into politics as a hobby.
Like many other business owners, Clinton has been in the business for many years, having a variety of different business enterprises. Trump, on the other hand, is a businessman who has been in the business of being a business tycoon for all of his adult life. The fact that he has experience in business doesn’t necessarily mean that he has the experience to make good decisions. In fact, it’s quite likely that he has no experience in this area at all.
Sure, we all have some experience with business, but we also all have some experience with politics. We all had the experience with the Clintons. We all had the experience with the Obama administrations. We all had the experience with Washington. But we also have something we are not quite sure about: the experience with politics. When I was in college taking a political science class, I was told that I needed to know some details about the political processes to have a good understanding of them.
I have no doubt that the majority of people today who want to understand the process of politics are also interested in trying to understand the processes that preceded them.
The process of politics has changed radically since the days of Thomas Jefferson, and the political process in the 21st century is no better. But political science has not. In 1826, a political science professor at a college in Ohio named James Madison was an independent candidate for president of the United States. However, on election day, he failed to receive enough electoral votes to win a majority of the electoral college voting.
The political scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) became interested in these election situations after he happened upon a similar situation in Pennsylvania. In his 1734 diary, he recounts that he watched as the electors selected a different candidate for president than he had, because the voters in Pennsylvania were so dissatisfied with the current president that they wanted a new one. However, the new candidate did not perform well and was defeated.
Franklin went on to write about the importance of elections, but that wasn’t what made him think of the voting situation at the time. In fact, for most of his life he was a staunch supporter of democracy. After all, he wrote in his 1747 autobiography, “I am not a man of political opinions, but of a religious and moral one, and the principles of it.” But Franklin was concerned about the electoral college.
It was not until the 18th century that the United States of America had a national election. The Electoral College was established in 1788 by the Constitution as a way for the representatives from each state to select the president. Since then, the electoral college has been in use without a clear understanding of it. One can point to the 1795 Constitutional Convention, where the Electoral College was written into the Constitution, but the process of selecting a president was not discussed in the Constitution.