Watching the melt downs was very much entertaining. First election I've ever watched as well. Typically I just go to bed and see who won the next day.
Watching some of the media go from Hillary is guaranteed, Trumps path is sooo limited, to Ok, trump has a couple paths now, but Hillary will still win, to finally Hillary has almost no chance! Nooooooooo! was good TV.
And then the crying, oh lord the crying
Anyway, having lived in WY for so long it was pretty evident how much of a non entity it is. The other argument that small populations actually count more per vote is silly. 99% of nothing, still nothing, just as nothing as 1% of nothing.
But, here is what all campaigns focus on and why.
California (55 votes)
Texas (38 votes)
Florida (29 votes)
New York (29 votes)
Illinois (20 votes)
Pennsylvania (20 votes)
Ohio (18 votes)
Georgia (16 votes)
Michigan (16 votes)
North Carolina (15 votes)
New Jersey (14 votes)
11 states, exactly 270 votes. They see the most money, the most time, the most everything. Because with those 11, you're president if you pull them all. Hillary's big mistake was living solely by that map and assuming she would get almost all of them and surely there would be enough of the nobody states to push her over the top. Trump spent a little more time on the next section down in order to eat away at Hillarys assumed lead. Every time he picked up one of the 11 it made the others more important, and they were areas Hillary spent no time on. She lost primarily because of her hubris.
And TBH she was only running because of cheating to start.
I watched some of the democrat primaries and was pretty disgusted on how they are run. No written vote whatsoever. Just a 'voice' vote, 'judged' by 1 person in a room of 20-50 voters.
I remember distinctly 1 were they call for Bernie, various room full of yay's, then Hillary, various room full of yays that on TV sounded pretty much identical. Followed by "WE WON! IT'S HILLARY!"
1st, [beeep] was that supposed to be? That's how you decide if you want to order mexican or chinese for lunch, not how you pick the president elect. Although to be honest any office I've been in at least does the 'raise your hand for mexican' thing so you can actually count.
2nd. "WE" won? Shouldn't the person doing the completely arbitrary 'vote' collection be impartial?
I've always 'known' that our process if F'd up, but actually seeing it happen was an eye opener.