Originally Posted by huey

You Americans talk like the Electoral college is a new thing when its how your elections have worked from the start.

Five times a candidate has won the popular vote and lost the election. Andrew Jackson in 1824 (to John Quincy Adams); Samuel Tilden in 1876 (to Rutherford B. Hayes); Grover Cleveland in 1888 (to Benjamin Harrison); Al Gore in 2000 (to George W. Bush); Hillary Clinton in 2016 (to Donald J. Trump).

Take California out of the picture in 2016 and trump wins popular vote too.
Popular vote of California 2016 Hillary 8,753,788 Trump 4,483,810

Computer nerds think they are smarter than everybody else and that middle America are a bunch of yokels.

Any person that has worked hard has a mortgage and raised kids could see that Clinton was just another run of the mill politician and voted for something different.
You might get what you wish for in 2024.