I mean iirc Hilary won the popular vote, no? The issue is our dumbass electorial college situation
- The Republicans have won the presidency three times this century, but have only won the popular vote once, on George W. Bush’s second campaign in 2004. The Electoral College screwed us over in 2000 (Bush vs Gore) and 2016 (Trump vs Clinton).
  
  The Deomocrats have also won the presidency three times this century, but also carried the popular vote every time they did. (Also, every time they won, Joe Biden has been on the ticket…)
  
  so is that because of gerrymandering or how come the electoral college creates a different result?
  
  It’s not intentional gerrymandering the same way that can happen when laying out congressional districts every 10 years, but it’s a form of gerrymandering from where the state boundaries got drawn. In addition, smaller population states have a disproportionate number of electoral votes, because every state gets 2 votes from their senators + a number of votes from their House members proportional to their population (minimum 1 representative, so minimum 3 total.)
  
  Other than Nebraska and Maine, that splits their electoral votes, its winner take all within each state, so if you win a state by 1 million votes or just 1 vote, either way you win all of the state’s electoral votes.
  
  Someone ran the numbers, based on the 2012-2021 congressional map, and worst case, you could win the popular vote 78.7% to 21.3% and still loose the election.
- It's not dumb. The EC is working exactly as designed.
  
  The EC is the fulcrum that allows the rich and powerful to bypass the will of the people by applying only minimal effort and expense.
  
  Built to appease a former slave state, oppressing us all through the amplification of like 18 fucking red necks in one rural Georgia county...
- Yes and No. Yes she won the popular vote, by close to 3 million, but No not in the “swing states” that had been considered “safe”. A margin of 10,000 votes in ~~Wisconsin~~ Michigan? Something like that. Anyway, part of that was Democrats seeing she’s a shoo-in and not bothering to vote.
  
  You Could Fit All the Voters Who Cost Clinton the Election in a Mid-Size Football Stadium
  
  This latest number comes from Decision Desk’s final tally of Pennsylvania’s votes, where Trump won 2,961,875 votes to Clinton’s 2,915,440, a difference of 46,435 votes. Add that to the official results out of Wisconsin, where Clinton lost by 22,177 votes, and Michigan, which she lost by 10,704 votes, and there you have it: 0.057 percent of total voters cost Clinton the presidency.
  
  Electoral College is absolutely the Fuckery Factor though, that's true.
- Yeah, by less than 3 million. 2016 was the biggest presidential punt of all time. Think of how different the world would be now if she hadn't taken that victory for granted.
- That's not getting better anytime soon. Best we can do for now is to mobile voters and squelch apathy.
  
  At local levels find candidates that support RCV reform if you want real change.

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