The US Presidential election system works in a very different way to our own.

Each of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia, where Washington is located, has a number of votes in the Electoral College to award to a candidate.

The number of votes is based on the number of members of congress the state has which is in proportion to the population of the state.

States like Maine and Nebraska give their votes on a winner takes all basis according to which candidate received the most number of votes in that state.

This means that it is important to win the states with a large population such as California, New York, Texas and Florida.

Last election showed this up perfectly when Obama got 53 per cent of the total votes cast in the election but a whopping 68% of the electoral college votes by taking these key states.

Trump and Clinton will be in a race to 270 Electoral College votes with the first candidate to hit that number taking up residence in 16 Pennsylvania Avenue (THE WHITE HOUSE)

"The number of votes is based on the number of members of congress the state has which is in proportion to the population of the state."

This is one of the numerous lessons we need to learn from America. Seats in the Nigerian House of Assembly (Senate and Representatives) should be allotted based on the accurate population of each states in the country and not on the useless status quo designed to favour some certain parts of the country over some other parts.

Why would Lagos and Zamfara for instance both have 3 Senators by law? the difference in population is crystal clear.

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Donald Trump is the next president of America. Shame on America's white majority.