In the US, it is this bizarre entity called the “electoral college” that determines whether in the following days it will still be a President Trump or a President Biden together with their choice of vice president. If Biden gets just 270 of the electors’ votes, and Trump gets 268, the former becomes the head of the most powerful nation on earth. This means it doesn’t matter which candidate gets the majority of the popular vote nationwide. But Bush became president since he got 271 of the electors’ votes, more than Gore’s 266. What tipped the race for Bush was that while he won Florida by a mere 539 votes, all of its 29 electoral votes, going by the winner-take-all method, were registered for him.

Source: Manila Times November 03, 2020 18:22 UTC