People Don't Seem To Understand that Hillary Won the Popular vote

When it's in someones interests not to understand something, it's very hard to get them to understand it. It's basically an ongoing aftereffect of the juryrigging obtained by the slaveholders when the constitution was first written. Slavery, the gift that keeps on giving 😕

The electoral system was an excellent and practical system when the country was founded because of the vastness of the United States and the impossibility of counting individual votes at the national level with the primitive methods available at that time. But in the modern era each individual vote can be counted.

People always bring up complaints with the electoral system after an election, but then quickly forget about it until the next election. The electoral system can be changed, but only by a amending the Constitution.

And New York has just as many senators as Montana. The electoral colleges is an attempt to balance between highly populated areas and more sparsely populated areas. It is not perfect but neither is the popular vote.

The United States is republic with power lying with the states. The electoral college is how we elect the president. It keeps the large states from having all the power over elections.

You are the one that doesn't understand little snowflake.

It's easy to understand (I agree with your post pointing out many don't seem to understand it)

Whoever gets the majority vote in each state... then ALL the electoral votes go towards the person for the entire state for that person. Hilary did get more popular votes, but, the states that Trump won resulted in those states having more electoral votes put in for him

And the amount of electoral votes that each state gets is solely based on the population of that state. thats why candidates tend to campaign in more populated states. and thats also the reason we conduct a census every ten years, because the population will change over time, hence, affecting the amount of electoral votes that that state gets for elections

Electoral votes are NOT part of democracy. Outrageous.

From outside the US your electoral system looks complicated, but quite logical for such a huge, diverse country.
Anyway, instead of whining now, better start a debate for the next election

They don't want to understand. Understanding ruins their motives and causes. You have to wonder what it is that some people really want - to understand or to have a cause. In too many cases it's the latter.

Had voter ID laws been in effect , it's doubtful that would have happened ... Libs can't win a fair election

we don't accurately track the popular vote because it is meaningless. We elect a president based on the number of congressmen. This is a bad argument because it is unprovable.

so she beat him in the popular vote by less than 7/10ths of 1 percent.

am I supposed to be impressed?

How ignorant do you have to be to think America is a democracy - it' a REPUBLIC.....GOD you people are DUMB

America is fucking complicated.
Okay Germany is too, but not like that.

When I look through this post I can't see 50% of all replies.
That means I pissed all the salty old people off :D

We don't have one.

i think if the election were based on the popular vote, both campaigns would have employed a different strategy. Both played to the existing rules.

Exactly just as ROMNEY actually won by count last election

However the college goes back to the founding as being created to safeguard us idiots being too stupid to pick the "right" leader

Yet this Hillary stabbed Bernie Sanders in the back, he would have been your president now ........

I don't guess it matters under our system

in the end it doesn't matter because the right person still won

Makes you wonder what they are teaching in school.

That has to happen to account for state population

Yep I agree.

It's weird