Mark Wachtler of Opposition News has done the hard work to obtain the preliminary vote totals for each presidential candidate who was on the ballot in at least one state. Here are his totals. Most noteworthy is that Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism & Liberation placed seventh.

There will be substantial increases in the vote for candidates like Evan McMullin and Laurence Kotlikoff, two candidates who depended mostly on write-ins. Many states don’t report any write-in vote totals until the final official canvass is complete.

Donald Trump will be the first president-elect who didn’t carry his home state since 1844, when Tennessee voted against James Polk. Thanks to Nancy Brune for this observation.

However, since 1844, two presidents running for re-election failed to carry their home states. They were Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and Herbert Hoover in 1932.

The Weeok has this column by journalist Paul Waldman, calling on the United States to eliminate the electoral college.

Also, The Cap Times, a daily on-line newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin, has editorialized to eliminate the electoral college.

As of early Wednesday, November 16, the margin between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is 1,188,809. The “other” percentage has risen to 5.3%.