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TheWorstPoster posted...

DistantMemory posted...

It was rigged in favor of Trump through the electoral college system.

If it were to be solely based on popular vote, all one needs to do is campaign in California, New York, Texas, and only the 10 most major cities outside of those states, to secure a victory.

Nothing else.

So that means that somebody who lives in a place like Idaho, has no say as to who would represent him on a Federal level, as opposed to someone living in Hollywood.

The electoral college doesn't remedy that problem at all. I don't remember Trump or Clinton making several weekend campaign visits to Montana in that election. What the electoral college does is make elections decided by swing states - many of them being rather big (Ohio and Florida in particular). In short what you're saying the electoral college does never actually has happened in any election ever. The smaller states are still completely ignored.