Trump's Flip-Flop on the Electoral College

Washington Post
November 15, 2016

Trump's Flip-Flop on the Electoral College: From "Disaster" to "Genius"


Everyone in Washington knows Miles law:
"Where you stand depends on where you sit."

Rufus E. Miles Jr. was a Truman administration bureaucrat who coined that phrase (as well as other maxims that President-elect Donald Trump would do well to study)

There can be no truer example of this than Trump's position on the electoral college.
He won the electoral college, but is on track to lose the popular vote by more than 1 million votes.

First lets look at Trump's position in 2012, when it appeared that Mitt Romney might win the popular vote but lost the electoral college.

Interestingly, Trump has deleted a number of tweets he sent in 2012 including:

- "He (Obama) lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election.
We should have a revolution in this country." (Nov. 6)

- "The phoney (sic) electoral college made a laughing stock out of our
nation. The loser one." (Nov. 6)

- "More votes equals a loss...revolution!" (Nov. 7)


But other tweets from that period remain.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/11/15/trumps-flip-flop-on-the-electoral-college-from-disaster-to-genius/