Recounts and the electoral college

Watching a news program this morning,  Jill Stein, the independent Green Party candidate was talking about a recount of votes in Michigan from the presidential election. She said 7500 votes did not include a presidential preference and that was suspicious. If there are problems with voting machines then they should be fixed in my opinion. It is good to have an accurate count, even though the electoral college vote and not the popular vote determines who wins the presidential election.

I was and remain curious about who are the members of the electoral college. The names are posted so one could find out easily where each member went to school, what values they support and why they voted the way they did.   Were they upset with Hillary? Did they prefer Bernie? Was it the email scandal? Are they against abortion? Do they feel Trump will do a better job at helping recover our economy? 15 out of 50 states electoral voters have the option to vote out of their party, according to Heavy, so I am curious what might have made any of them do this.

In the future I will struggle to justify myself voting in the general election. But I will still vote in the primary elections. Should the electoral college be disbanded then I will again vote in the general election.

Still I struggle knowing that people I am friends with voted for the president-elect. I want to know their motivations for voting for him, although some people have been more outspoken, even in the workplace than might be appropriate. Someone in particular who was less supportive at best of Obama, saying some people said he was the antichrist (really, at the workplace?) and that there should be a firing squad, thinks that our president-elect is the best person for the job. And I'm not trying to be elitist about this but I ask myself, where did she go to school, what news programs does she watch and what internet sites does she visit to justify her beliefs systems. I'm working through this struggle every day. Although for sanity purposes I'm trying to put less emphasis on it and concentrate more on what I can control at work, with my family and in relationships.

If our president-elect is able to help our economy by keeping more jobs here by lowering taxes then that will be good for some people.We will have to see what is the real outcome.

In the meantime I will be doing my own little part to help the economy by spending more money on food, as I am the inconsolable eater.And doing so locally. Our turkey this year was from the nice people at Double Check Ranch in Winkleman, Arizona.
 

We recently had dinner at China Village, a local restaurant that we like to go to for great sweet and sour pork.

One of my favorite places for snacks is Tropical Snowflake Raspados, where the agua mineral preparada is sweet, sour, bubbly and slightly salty.

The struggle continues.