 Welcome to my channel. Now what I'd like to do is take a look at some statistics that we got from the 2016 elections. As I mentioned previously, what we're going to do, we're going to take a look at politics through the lens of economics, because politics and economics are sort of one thing, really. Economics really governs our politics, and politics goes hand in hand with economics, right? And we've already sort of put out, I think, three videos on economics, and we took a look at some interest rates, and rate of growth, and differential accumulation, and stuff like this. What I'd like to do right now is take a look at some hard data specifically from politics, which is one set of data available from 2016 elections. I dug down a little bit, and I took a look at some other statistics as well, but I want to take a look at this one, because this is the one that's going to come up the most, and it has already come out the most regarding the elections. And it's come up in my conversations since the elections, and I live in Canada, so I can't even imagine how heavy this conversation is in the United States right now, because it's pretty prevalent here, right? During these conversations, what I end up doing is throwing a wrench in the wheel, playing a devil's advocate, and taking the statistics that most people are regurgitating that's being propagated through mainstream media, and I take it down one level deeper, right? And the reason I do this is because it's good for people to question the system, it's good for conversation, for dialogue, to dig deeper into statistics, because mathematics is really what governs our society, what governs every aspect of our lives, right? And this is one of the most common questions I get asked. Teaching mathematics is why am I going to use this in the real world, right? Which is one of the reasons I put out two videos I think in 2008 or 2009, where I talk about where we end up using math in the real world, right, and why mathematics is important. So what I'd like to do is take a look at where we can use mathematics and politics, right? Because we've already taken care of some economics, might as well take a look at some hard political data. Now, from the 2016 election, this is the information we got regarding the popular vote. We ended up getting the following, there's, now let me just give you the population data. There's 320 million people in the United States, okay, that's important to know. Approximately 320 million, okay? There's approximately 251 million eligible voters for the 2016 election, so let's just say 250 million eligible voters, and 137 million voted, okay? So a little bit more than 50% of the population ended up voting in these elections, which isn't really that good, right? So that's really important to keep. That data is really important to keep in mind when we start, you know, we go one layer deeper and we take a look at the popular vote, who voted for who, okay? So for Hillary Clinton, 65.9 million people voted for Hillary Clinton. So we're going to put Hillary Clinton here. So 65.9, this isn't dark enough, let's do this in black, 65. So 65.9 million voted for Hillary Clinton. For Donald Trump, 62.9, well 63.0 million voted, right? So Donald Trump will call D and 63.0 million, if we're rounding up, okay? This is what the total election results were, popular results were, approximately, for the whole United States. Now if we take this data and we take out California, right? So let's take a look at California. California, 8.8 million people voted for Hillary, 8.8 million voted for Hillary, and 4.5 voted for Donald Trump. Now if we subtract this from this, this is what we end up getting. 57.1 million voted for Hillary, 58.5 million voted for Trump. So if we take out California, Donald Trump got more of the popular vote. Out of the 50 states, if we take out one state, Donald Trump got more of the popular vote. Now California, and that's by how much is it, the difference here is 1.4 million, right? So 1.4 million in favor of Donald Trump, might as well put that on there as well. So the population of California is, let's take this up, the population of California, let me close this, so our pen doesn't dry. The population of California is 24 million, right? So out of the, I guess, 250 million, California were about 10% of the eligible voters, 14 million voted out of 137, so about 10% of the population that voted and was eligible to vote, so I'm going to assume that's going to be 10% of the population in the United States as well. Actually, California population over here is 39 million, so it's a little bit more than 10% of the population. So if we take out one region, California, and it was mainly, if you look at the one other thing I'll, if you're interested, I will provide links to these charts, this data in the description of this video. If you take a look at the map of the counties, and this is a black and white, online you can see it in color. If you take a look at the map of the counties, the way it works out is there are only certain centers that a huge percentage voted for Hillary Clinton, one of them being Washington DC, the District of Columbia, right? It was like 93% of the people in Washington DC and District of Columbia voted for Hillary Clinton, which is really the establishment voting for Hillary Clinton, right? So in those centers, Clinton got a huge chunk of the vote. In a lot of the other areas, the outskirts, where I guess the votes come in from the Electoral College, that's something that people are questioning, where California represents 55% of the electoral, or 55 seats out of 538 seats, a little bit more than 10% again, right? So it's divvied out pretty evenly, right? You can see the Electoral College here, right? You can just go to the Wiki site, you can see how many votes each candidate got, and what percent, and stuff like that, and what each state is, right? So if you take a look at the vote count by county and the Electoral College and stuff like this, there's, you know, with people who are mentioning that Hillary Clinton got more of the popular vote and she should be in office, the question comes, all of a sudden comes into play. Do we believe in the centralization of power? Do we believe that people in centers of big cities, centers of the states, where a lot of power accumulates, should they be allowed to make the decision for the entirety of the country, even for people, you know, 1,000 miles away, 2,000 miles away, all right? Should we allow the centralization of power to govern us, really? That's sort of the question I bring up to people who quote me, the statistics that Hillary Clinton got more of the popular vote, right? Which is one reason the Electoral College was put into place to protect people really from democracy. There's a lot of laws in the United States put into place to protect people from democracy, right? So that's one statistic that I like to bring up regarding the 2016 elections and in my conversation so far, I haven't come across anyone that has, you know, was prepared to reply to this, right? So I'm sharing this video, I wanted to look at the statistic because I think it affects both people if you believe in the economy, if you believe in black and white, right and wrong, if you don't believe in shades of gray, if you exist on those extremes, then this is something that both extremes and shades of gray should take into consideration because it poses a lot of questions, it brings up a lot of questions about the system, about what we are choosing to be, the system we're choosing to be governed under and how that should play out. And if that's really a fair system or it's not a fair system, okay? And there's a lot of statistics that I dug down into this. I found this stuff cool, I love data, so this to me was one of the most simplest, simplest places where in a conversation, it can be brought up where the conversation can go beyond just rhetoric and being stuck in one place, just looping itself that this is the only reality there is, right? There are other perspectives and that's what mathematics does, that's the beauty of mathematics because it brings up questions, right? It's not as much, science is not really about answering questions, science is about asking questions and mathematics is one of the tools we have at our disposal to answer, to answer questions, to ask questions, to go deeper into a system. Voter turnout, I mean you could go deep into this, I looked at some of the charts for voter turnout for the sexes and the different age groups and a lot of this stuff is available online and these should be in color, I just print out black and white. U.S. voter, a popular vote for president at percentage or total population and this thing starts off in 1700s, goes all the way to 2012 and this is cool because as more and more people started getting the right to vote, the chart starts going up and the population increases and basically it's about 40% of the total U.S. population that gets to vote and I was out of the tables and stuff that you can take a look at, I'll provide links to these, a lot of this is available on wiki so you can take a look at the percentage of people that voted, it was 54.6% of voters voted and you can dig down deeper into that and take things as far as you can and one of the most amazing data sets that everyone should take a look at and you should compare it with other data of who's voting and who's not voting but basically a United States population by age and sex and these charts, these charts here if you start looking populations in countries and stuff like this, they reveal a lot about what's going on economically and politically within a country and once you start going down this rabbit hole, it's actually quite brilliant because you go beyond the rhetoric, you go beyond what, you filter out a lot of noise and you start understanding why certain things are turning out the way they are. So anyway, I just wanted to make this video because it's something that I found interesting and if you're interested in this, if you dig down deeper and find cool statistics for sure post comments or sending messages and stuff like this, well maybe we'll dig down a little bit deeper and make something more formal, analyzing data from the 2016 elections but this data is something that took me a very short, short time to take a look at and have as a tool, as a conversation piece during gatherings where if people are defending or opposing a certain point of view, I'd like to sort of play devil's advocates and throw this in there and see what happens, see where the dialogue takes us, it usually doesn't get stuck in a loop in the rhetoric realm, then the conversation breaks free and there's more discussion about the system and what we truly want to believe in and how we want to function. So that's it for now and we'll do more stuff related to politics and economics, we'll take a look at our data and not take any sides but really just post questions for us and get us thinking about the system and how everything works out. That's it for now, I'll see you guys in the next video.