Hillary Clinton Breaks Silence on ‘Abomination’ of Electoral College in New Netflix Series
Former first lady, secretary of state, and Democratic nominee for the 2016 presidential election Hillary Clinton is breaking her silence on the electoral college that cost her the win against Donald Trump in Netflix’s new docuseries The American Experiment.
In the five-part series, which premieres on Wednesday, June 24, Clinton says of the system, per Variety, “Well, I personally think the Electoral College is an abomination… for obvious reasons.”
Director Brian Knappenberger told the outlet of the comments, “I knew I would be asking former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton about one of the most painful moments of her life. She has rarely spoken candidly about that election night, and we’re really happy she talked about it for the series. She has a unique perspective as one of only five people in American history to lose the presidency after winning the popular vote. The 2016 election also stands out because Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the popular vote by such a significant margin.”
The series’ official description tells us, “As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the new five-part documentary series The American Experiment reexamines the improbable achievement that was the nation’s founding, and the radical question at the center of the revolution: Can a people govern themselves? Featuring an extraordinary range of voices including former vice presidents and cabinet officials, current and former members of Congress, a former Supreme Court justice, leading historians, tribal chiefs, military experts, and thought leaders across the political spectrum, the series presents uniquely bipartisan, wide-ranging, and deeply informed conversations about the origins and future of American democracy.”
The description continues, “Tracking the years leading up to the Revolution through the drafting of the Constitution and the first American presidency, The American Experiment explores how a nation built on an untested idea has continued to wrestle with the foundational contradictions of slavery, liberty, individual power, and minority representation — and how American democracy has been built, challenged, and reimagined over the course of two and a half centuries. Cinematic in scope and urgently relevant, The American Experiment reveals how the debates that defined the country’s founding era still shape the United States, posing a pivotal question at a moment of profound division: Can this extraordinary experiment endure?”
The American Experiment, June 24, Netflix
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Hillary Clinton lost the state-level popular vote in 30 of the 50 states. 60% of the republic did not want her. The Founding Fathers designed a system that has preserved America since 1787. Without the electoral college, the coasts would bully the country.
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Since the article provides such a one-sided view of the system, how can we trust the writer that the series will be "bipartisan." I suppose after the directors and producers finish spinning whatever they disagree with into words that support their view, that will make it bipartisan.
Is this yet another rehash of Trump cheated and the Russians helped him? The electoral system attempts to equalize the votes between densely populated areas with the sparsely populated areas that provide their food. You cannot put a building that houses 2,000 people on 10 acres when it grows one or two food crops per year.
Good luck getting two-thirds of Americans to support a change to the Constitution that nullifies nearly 50% of the votes by eliminating the electoral system. The country went back and forth a few times using different methods to select the electors. Each state may still use any system they want, or even create a new one. The problem is, nobody can predict how such changes will impact an election until everyone votes. By then, the outcome could be very different from what the politicians hoped.
Other than Nebraska and Maine, DC and the other states use a winner take all system. Nebraska and Maine use a hybrid of a district and statewide system.
Following Hillary's loss to Trump, two news networks, NBC(?) and ABC(?) ran the numbers as if the district system were used thinking Hillary would have won by a large margin. Trump won by a larger margin in both mock-ups.
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