Election 2016: Interviews about the weeks after Election Night By: Cameron Riley

I personally know that hearing about this topic now makes people cringe and feel bad but since the most hyped up, mud slinging, protested election probably of all time, people have acted so strangely and unexpectedly. The now President elect Donald Trump won the election by a count of 290 to 232 electoral votes, some argue that the Popular vote should decide who wins the election not how many people represent the state in congress. Nonetheless, Trump won the election and the country didn’t like it. People revolted immediately after the election occurred and sparked a miniature revolution against the President elect. In states such as Oregon, New York and California. I spoke with three people of different ages and demographics, I asked three questions to show people’s views on common events about the revolts, what the election should be decided by and how the election was in one word.

When asked about what the election should be decided by, two of the three decided to have the popular vote decide who the president is. Reasons behind this were like a vote between friends, if 2 voted to go to get hamburgers and 5 others wanted to go get pizza you would go get pizza, not say someone who voted for hamburgers has more friends that her vote counted more. You would go get pizza because more people voted for Pizza. When asked about the protests, all the people agreed that it was fair because we all deserve free speech and if used in such cases like this, it should be used fairly and not abused to hurt others. All of the answers for the election in one word all related to the word Tragic, meaning that the result and what had happened in those weeks leading up were Tragic.

The election was a rough time in America, but everyone’s opinion matters and that is what this exercise was attempting to achieve by using other demographics and different kinds of people to speak about their opinions and use reasoning behind it to speak for others who don’t want to speak about it.