A majority of the voters did vote for Clinton yes - and that's all that required to win the popular vote.
There is no need to pass the threshold of 50% of everyone actually eligible to vote - that's a complete misstatement on what constitutes a majority in a democratic election.
Considering the US's very low voter turn out rate practically no president has ever been elected with an actual majority of all eligible voters.
I think you actually know that, but with the "news" source you probably get your information from I'm not entirely sure.
So let's just restate this basic democratic fact - a "majority" in a democratic election is constituted of the majority of the voters who actually chose to participate in the election.
Those that don't doesn't count.
And no - your system is certainly not "smarter" - it's less democratic.
Countries where the majority of the voters wishes are ignored are of course LESS democratic.
And if this had happened to two Republican presidents there would be no end to you and your right-wing brethrens outrage at the completely undemocratic process that would let the candidate with the LEAST amount of popular votes win.
Case in point - in the last election before this, in 2012, Trump mistakenly believed that Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama despite having won the popular vote.
Now Mitt Romney didn't in fact win the popular vote but since Trump's an idiot he never bothered to actually clear that up before he took to his favorite medium of Twitter to blast the terrible state of the US political system:
"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy."
and
"This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!"
where his stated opinion on the matter then. As far as I know he had no problem with the same system when G.W Bush won in 2000 the same way and he sure as hell had no problem with winning that way himself last year.
But the year he for a moment thought a Republican lost because of the electoral collage it was immediately "a disaster for a democracy" and grounds for him calling for "a revolution in this country!" (that tweet was later deleted).
Which just shows that Trump - just like you - are just full of shit. You care nothing for democratic principles at all - all you care about is that your candidate benefits from whatever system is in place.
If they do the system is terrific - if they don't it's a disaster.
You actually go a step further in embracing outright fascism with your belief that some people's votes shouldn't count at all.
At least Trump hasn't actually done that yet - as far as I know. He just called for a revolution.
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@Dorsai
A majority of the voters did vote for Clinton yes - and that's all that required to win the popular vote.
There is no need to pass the threshold of 50% of everyone actually eligible to vote - that's a complete misstatement on what constitutes a majority in a democratic election.
Considering the US's very low voter turn out rate practically no president has ever been elected with an actual majority of all eligible voters.
I think you actually know that, but with the "news" source you probably get your information from I'm not entirely sure.
So let's just restate this basic democratic fact - a "majority" in a democratic election is constituted of the majority of the voters who actually chose to participate in the election.
Those that don't doesn't count.
And no - your system is certainly not "smarter" - it's less democratic.
Countries where the majority of the voters wishes are ignored are of course LESS democratic.
And if this had happened to two Republican presidents there would be no end to you and your right-wing brethrens outrage at the completely undemocratic process that would let the candidate with the LEAST amount of popular votes win.
Case in point - in the last election before this, in 2012, Trump mistakenly believed that Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama despite having won the popular vote.
Now Mitt Romney didn't in fact win the popular vote but since Trump's an idiot he never bothered to actually clear that up before he took to his favorite medium of Twitter to blast the terrible state of the US political system:
"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy."
and
"This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!"
where his stated opinion on the matter then. As far as I know he had no problem with the same system when G.W Bush won in 2000 the same way and he sure as hell had no problem with winning that way himself last year.
But the year he for a moment thought a Republican lost because of the electoral collage it was immediately "a disaster for a democracy" and grounds for him calling for "a revolution in this country!" (that tweet was later deleted).
Which just shows that Trump - just like you - are just full of shit. You care nothing for democratic principles at all - all you care about is that your candidate benefits from whatever system is in place.
If they do the system is terrific - if they don't it's a disaster.
You actually go a step further in embracing outright fascism with your belief that some people's votes shouldn't count at all.
At least Trump hasn't actually done that yet - as far as I know. He just called for a revolution.
http://nordic.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-electoral-college-popular-vote-2016-11?r=US&IR=T