The Queen's Christmas message 2016

The Queen's Christmas message

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Source: BBC News

The Queen's speech in full: 'We can do small things with great love' 

 Read a full transcript of Queen Elizabeth II’s traditional Christmas Day address to the UK on 25 December 2016

 Source: The Guardian, 25 December 2016

Electoral College Settles Donald Trump’s Victory, but Little Else

  Extract:

 The meeting of the Electoral College after presidential elections has long been little more than a tradition-bound formality, with political insiders gathering to ratify the preferences of their state’s voters and distribute 538 electoral votes. Yet as with so much else in this turbulent election year, even that civic ritual was punctuated by anger and dissent.

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Source: New York Times, Dec. 19, 2016

US presidential elections

The Electoral Vote will take place on December 19th

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What happens in the extremely unlikely scenario the Electoral College goes rogue?

Donald Trump is busy building his Cabinet and planning his agenda, but he isn't really, officially going to be President quite yet. One of the peculiarities of American democracy is that it's a group of 538 "electors" -- members of the Electoral College -- in this nation of 318 million who actually pick the president.

They'll do it, meeting in their respective states, on December 19th.

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Source:  CNN  December 16, 2016

1ère LV1 - CCTV cameras: Britain remains a surveillance state

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Source: Press TV

Watergate Scandal

Watergate Brings Down Nixon
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Donald Trump: How the media created the President

Trump's triumph confounded pollsters, pundits and the mainstream media

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Analysis: The failure of journalism, The triumph of television, Share of voice

Source: BBCNews, 13 November 2016

Hillary Clinton lost the election but "won" the popular vote

Presidential results:
290 electoral votes for Trump                                232 electoral votes for Clinton
47.3% 60,265,858 votes                                      47.8%  60,839,922 votes

Donald Trump managed to get enough electoral votes (270)  to win the election.
Even though Hillary Clinton apparently won the popular vote, she didn't get the required 270 electoral votes to be elected president. It also happened to AL Gore in 2000 when he lost the election against George W Bush.