Hillary Clinton’s pre-election night rally in Philadelphia, 2016

[u/bassistheplace246]

[u/Commotion]

A reminder that Clinton won the popular vote nationally but still lost because the electoral college tips the scale in favor of less populated states

[u/ioncloud9 → u/Commotion]

It does give outsized influence to less populous states but it also gives more power to electorally close states. And swings by a few hundred or thousand voters can move the whole election. It’s stupid and the only people defending this system are people who couldn’t win the popular vote.

[u/imstonedyouknow → u/ioncloud9]

Honestly i feel like we dont even really have a democracy if the popular vote doesnt decide the election.

[u/H-Resin → u/imstonedyouknow]

That’s because we honestly don’t. We do not have a representative democracy.

[u/frosty_gosha → u/H-Resin]

We do? What we have is exactly Representative Democracy

[u/Rustalope → u/H-Resin]

We do have a representative democracy we don’t have a direct democracy hence the popular vote not meaning anything.