> Hi, Bj˙˙˙rn Felten!
> I read your message from 09.12.2017 21:21
> 
>   ak>> Tell me which peace of the ugly truth about Clinton was
>   ak>> opened in this way and prevented her from beating Trump?
>   BF>     No peace there. :)
> 
> A good lapsus calami as Freud would have said. ;-)
> 
>   BF>     But the reason Trump won is the same as when GWB once won
>   BF> -- the corrupt US election system.
> 
> Probably, it is better to say about an "imperfect election system". But 
> in the USA it was done on purpose, during the times when there was a 
> caution that Americans could elect a candidate bad for the ruling elite. 
> And they had invented a small group of people that can overrule the 
> votes of Americans, if necessary. It means that Trump is not a menace 
> for the ruling elite.

Most people don't understand that the US president and vice president are
elected by the states, not by the people.  Democracy is simply a big word
that means "mob rule," and given the demonstrated intellectual capacity
of the American public it really isn't a good idea.

Back when things started the election was just for president, the guy
with the most votes became president and second place became
vice-president.  This resulted in presidents and vice-presidents with
conflicting ideologies (imagine Trump as president and Hillary! as
vice-president), so the 12 Amendment changed things so the president and
vice-president run as a team, not individuals.

The Electoral College is structured so that the states start out with an
equal number of votes (two) and then get at one more for each
representative the state has in congress.  High population states have
more votes and low population states have fewer votes (Wyoming has 3,
Nebraska has 5, New York, California and Texas all have more than 20).

All of the states except two (Nebraska and Maine) allocate all of their
electoral votes to the candidate that has the majority of votes in the
state.  Nebraska and Maine allocate two of their votes to the candidate
that has the most votes in the state, and the remaining votes to
whichever candidate has the most votes in the corresponding congressional
district.  That wasn't an issue in Nebraska, which was very solidly
Republican, until 2008, when Obama won one district (and one vote, out of
five) and sent the Republican powers in the state into a foaming,
eye-popping rage they still haven't recovered from.  Obama did it again
in 2012.