@MonarchButter: math butter ... math... you can not say majority ... neither candidate received 50% of the votes of Americans ... way over 100 million did not vote.
Unless you have skills that devine what those people are thinking ... ya just can not say majority.
As to fluke ... it was no fluke, the electoral aystem worked PRECISELY as designed.
It worked really good.
The American presidential election rules were built to to achieve/prevent a few things.
The founders, from smaller colonies, did not like the idea that population in large cities like Boston, NY and Philly or larger states could, via popular vote, control the presidential selection.
Before those states joined, they had to have the assurance that large population centers would not have undue influence.
Then came the regional issue.
Then came the worry that the English might immigrate to the cities and retake the young US.
They carefully debated ... then agreed on the state vote distribution.
In 2016, it worked perfectly ... it prevented the dense urban centers, like LA and Cali, from exerting undue influence.
Mathematically, the system favors voters that are well distributed ... over dense co-located voters.
In 2020, the disparity enlarges. 8 more votes move from blue states to red states... Texas picks up 3.
And there cannot be a majority for either party ... even if they had 50% ... for, to have a majority ... both parties must be normally distributed ... and there must be respect.
We have neither condition.
There are two times this has occurred ... in 1860 and 2016
