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    It’s still theoretically possible for Donald Trump not to become president. But the near-impossibility all depends on the electoral college and the strange US system. Donald Trump might have won the election by getting more of the votes in the electoral college than Hillary Clinton did. But strictly and legally, it’s not the election that just happened that matters: it’s the one where the members of the electoral college go and represent their voters and pick their candidate. That’s due to happen on 12 December, at meetings in each state where all Republican or Democrat representatives – depending on how each state voted – will cast their vote. And it will almost certainly go one way, with most of the electors casting their ballots for Donald Trump and making him President...

    Much of the world knew a few hours after voting concluded that Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States, based on the tally of electoral college votes. But as of Wednesday morning, Hillary Clinton was still leading in the popular vote, by a margin of 135,495. Clinton had 59,186,057 votes, while Trump had garnered 59,049,470. While confusing—and frustrating—to many, it’s not the first time in history that election results reflect such a discrepancy. In the 2000 election, Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency to George Bush, who won five more votes from the electoral college. In addition to Bush, only three other former candidates in U.S. history have lost the popular vote but won the presidency: Benjamin Harrison in 1888, Rutherford B. Hay...

    The historic 2016 presidential election keeps on producing first-ever landmarks, and that includes the next first lady of United States, Melania Trump. So what kind of FLOTUS will she be? According to first-lady historians, here's a hint: Think Jackie Kennedy, not Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama. In terms of the evolution of the first lady, I see (Trump) moving us back to the more traditional role, says Jean Wahl Harris, who studies the role of the first lady at the University of Scranton. A very traditional social hostess is something I think she will be comfortable with. But she will be expected to be front and center, not shy and retiring like Bess Truman in the 1940s. But Trump was hardly on the campaign trail so what's to stop her from doing the u...

    Early this morning, after a year of heated rhetoric, divisive language and fierce Facebook battles with friends and family members alike, America’s contentious election season has finally come to an end. On Wednesday afternoon, Hillary Clinton got on stage to make her final, live concession speech, thanking her followers for all of their hard work on her behalf. And for this landmark occasion, the democratic nominee and her husband chose outfits with deep, royal purple accents as a means of delivering a very powerful political message. The first theory behind this particular choice of color is obvious enough. Purple is the shade you get when you combine red and blue, i.e. the middle ground between the democratic and republican parties, a position of compromise, something t...

    Donald Trump’s unexpected election win ignited protests that continued through the day after the election and then into the night – with thousands of demonstrators shutting down major streets and surrounding the real estate mogul’s buildings in American cities. As US voters and international leaders began to come to terms with a Republican White House led by the former reality television star, anti-Trump activists on Wednesday launched impromptu protests criticizing the racism, sexism and xenophobia that they say the president-elect has made mainstream. The demonstrations in cities including New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, Philadelphia and Seattle – swelled and drew large police responses after Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton lost the electoral college...

    The Donald Trump win devastated many who wanted America to elect its first female president. However, some have already cast aside their previous female candidate, Hillary Clinton, and are now endorsing another potential first female president - Michelle Obama. The First Lady to Barack Obama is very popular and many think she would be in with a chance of winning the election for the Democrats in 2020. Michelle Obama: Trumps comments should not be seen as 'politics as usual' Play! 02:36 The hashtag #Michelle2020 trended on Twitter as people voiced their hopes she would save the US from President Trump. While some are tweeting in jest, others seem to actually want her to run to be president of the United States as a tonic to Donald Trump's impending term.

    Donald Trump shattered expectations on Tuesday with an election night victory that revealed deep anti-establishment anger among American voters and set the world on a journey into the political unknown. The Republican nominee has achieved one of the most improbable political victories in modern US history, despite a series of controversies that would easily have destroyed other candidacies, extreme policies that have drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle, a record of racist and sexist behaviour, and a lack of conventional political experience. After surprise early victories in Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, it fell to the Rust Belt states of the industrial midwest to determine the result of his stunning upset. Wisconsin and Michigan, two states hit hard by a decl...