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Originally Posted by Bladewire
Trump lost the American vote by over 2,000,000 votes and counting. The "American people" overwhelmingly chose a competent Hillary Clinton for president.
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I stayed up all night on election night watching the results on CNN.
Trump led the popular vote all the way UNTIL California votes were counted.
Hillary's popular vote "win" has a lot to do with New York and California. Two of the most populous places in the USA (California IS the most populous state)
But Trump won the popular vote in the rest of the United States.
That's why there is an electoral college. So that everyone's vote counts...and not just the ones in California and New York.
This is a Union of States. Not one big state. But 50 different ones.
It's kinda sloppy but it's a better system than simply counting all the votes in the country and handing it over to the "winner" (since nobody's vote would count unless you lived in California or New York)
The thing I think they should change is the "Winner Take All" that is in effect for most states. It should be proportional.
If Trump or Hillary won a state by 4%...they shouldn't get 100% of the electoral votes. They should get the percentage that they won.
Pretty sure that still wouldn't have helped Hillary. She lost badly. But it still would be more representative of the votes from each state in my opinion.