Three wealthy U.S. citizens, ages 73, 77 and 78 — together could have played a round of golf at a nursing home in San Cramento, California. Sadly, this is not the case in reality. The 73-year-old is the current president and would love to be re-elected. His rival is either Joe Biden, 77, or Bernie Sanders, 78, depending on who wins the Democratic convention majority. Michael Bloomberg, 78, and Elizabeth Warren, 70, who can be called a rising star, both just dropped out of the Democratic primary. Towards Geriatric Politics If Bill Clinton (Hong Kong translation "Clinton") is used as a yardstick, it is clear that the United States is moving towards geriatric politics.
Clinton, who terminated his presidency 19 years ago, is now just 73 years old, still younger than Donald Trump, Biden and Sanders. Another comparison: The Company banner design average age of the U.S. population is 38, which is half the average age of the competitors. Also: America is a plural society. While non-Latino whites still have a majority, that majority is dwindling, falling below 50 percent by 2045. Then there's the fact that in the United States, half of the population (currently 50.6%) are women. That said, it would be increasingly inappropriate to have an old white man as president.
Nonetheless, it still happens, and the reason is a deeper structural problem—the US electoral system. Under this system, the winner is not the one with the most votes. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won nearly 3 million more votes than Trump. However, that doesn't count. What's more important is the electoral system, which originated from the era of the postal carriage, and distorted the original election result, commonly known as the "Popular Vote". Small states are overrepresented The president is elected by male and female electors. The number of electors is not proportional to the population of the federal states. Smaller states with relatively dispersed populations are clearly over-represented. As a result, voters in these states have a heavier vote.