From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:
The current popular vote for the November 8th presidential election (according to CNN) is:
Hillary Clinton……………62,523,126 (48%)
Donald Trump…………….61,201,031 (47%)
Difference……………1,325,095
That’s right. Hillary Clinton got over 1.3 million more votes than Donald Trump did in the presidential election. In any other democracy, that would have meant she would be the next president. But in our archaic electoral system, getting the most votes doesn’t mean anything. What matters is winning enough states to get 270 electoral college votes.
This is the second time in the last five presidential elections that the candidate who got the most votes was not chosen by the electoral college to become president (in 2000 and in 2016). This has many people calling for a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college — and let the winner of the popular vote become president.
But what does the general public think about abolishing the electoral college?