[Shish2k]

Alas, this is what The People democratically voted for; and with our current voting system, the will of us 49% who don’t want to hear it counts for nothing u_u

[bosswipe]

53.9% of us voted against Trump.

[daenz]

of the 58% of eligible voters who actually voted.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

31.3% of the eligible population voted against Trump. 26.7% voted for him.

[dTal]

Implying...?

[LargoLasskhyfv]

Fraud!

[Soulsbane]

Exactly! He didn't win the popular vote.

[krapp]

The popular vote has never mattered, and Americans have never changed that, despite having a couple of centuries of ample opportunity to do so.

[sfj]

The whole reason there is a United States of America is because each state would get a voice in choosing the president. By only going by popularity, a few select cities decide all. If it was proposed that way, the USA would never have formed and we'd have a bunch of individual separate countries.

[moeadham]

“The only reason we have an application is because the original developers wrote it in COBOL. Refactoring it to the realities of the world today is blasphemy!”

[sfj]

What is so different? Are you sure the USA would hold together if they changed the voting structure so that NY and LA ran everything?

[scarmig]

Americans whose votes are counted in the current system have never changed that.

States representing a large majority of the US population have all passed legislation for a national popular vote, and no one doubts that a national popular vote on whether to have a national popular vote would succeed.

[Acrobatic_Road]

Nobody won >50% of the popular vote.