Why does the United States choose presidents based on the electoral college? That question was raised by Georgia lawmakers on both sides of the aisle well before Donald Trump’s victory.
University of Georgia political science chair Charles Bullock said Georgia doesn’t get a whole lot of attention during presidential elections.
“Hillary Clinton never came here, and Donald Trump didn’t come here after, I think, June,” he said. “We got very little attention, although in the grand scheme of things, we’re relatively competitive. Trump wins the state by 5.2 percentage points, which is pretty close.”
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