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Tumult and confusion continues to surround the recent presidential election in the United States, the most populous nation in North America and the world’s largest military power. The winning candidate — a businessman and television celebrity named Donald Trump — received far fewer votes than his opponent, a former senator and secretary of state (as Americans call their foreign minister) named Hillary Clinton. Trump has nonetheless been declared the legitimate president-elect because of the United States’ peculiar electoral system, a system that is poorly understood even by the nation’s own citizens.
Last week, one of the United States’ …read more
Source: Salon
