Joshua King's Free Press

Many Nigerians are disappointed at the election results in the United States. Many in the world are also very distraught and confused. History was to be made at least according to the polls. Citizens in the land of the free were to choose the leader of the free world to lead them for the next 4 years. Many Nigerians had expected Hilary Rodham Clinton the Democrat candidate to win and the polls indicated she had a good lead until the days leading up to the election. In fact, she won the popular vote but still lost the election. How did that happen? Rigging?! Take it easy. Voter fraud is not the case here but a system known as the Electoral College. Unlike Nigeria, where voter fraud or electoral malpractice is common place, incidences of the like are quite insignificant in the United States. Just what is the Electoral College, you may ask. The Electoral College is a process not a place. It consists of 538 electors who choose the president. To win the presidency, 271 of those el