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Also hot take I don't think popular vote should actually win and the Electoral College system is better than a purely popular vote approach. Because every state is different and needs to have its issues represented rather than California and New York and Texas just godstomping vote results because more people live there. For an extreme example let's say in a hypothetical world let's say Japan was part of Hawaii-- do you think a far island country (state I suppose in the hypothetical) should control around 30% of the results when culturally and in terms of concerns it's completely different than most of the mainland US?

That being said the system is not perfect. Nebraska and Maine have a better system that splits the votes a bit based on districts (which Trump still beats Hillary under if the whole country uses it, albeit by less) though that isn't perfect either due to gerrymandering concerns.

Each state getting 2 votes for senators and population based representatives is definitely better than just raw popular vote though in the sense of helping the smaller states have a voice. Most people who whine about Electoral College probably don't even understand how it works and just know it can flip popular vote results and whine because of it.