Why is it that the majority of American votes do not count in an election?

Question

This past election has proven that the majority of American votes do not count and that there's really no point in voting. 3 million more Americans wanted Clinton to win than Trump. Additionally, 8 million Americans voted for other candidates. So that means a total of about 11 million more Americans did not want Trump than did want him, yet he's currently in the white house. Trump won because of about 80,000 votes for him between 3 states. So this election pretty much showed that 80,000 votes is more important than 11 million votes. This is why the electoral college needs to be done away with. This was a system that may have worked 250 years ago when it was put in place, but certainly doesn't work now. I forgot to add that electors are sometimes faithless and vote for other candidates, like what happened in this election. In elections that are really close, faithless electors can actually make a difference

Answer 1

Unfortunately for Hillary, she decided to run up her vote totals in California and Illinois where Trump had no shot than face off with him in the Midwest. Well, she ran up her California and Illinois vote totals all right, but that didn't give her a single extra vote where it mattered-the Electoral College. Had she actually not taken her election for granted, she might have come closer to winning.

Answer 2

You are wrong on all counts. We have the Electoral College as mandated in the Constitution. So called popular votes for president do not exist. About 55 million people voted for Trump. So about 250 million did not vote for Trump. He won the election fairly.

Answer 3

America is a representative republic, not a direct democracy. the point of a republic is to protect the rights of everyone, including from a majority bent on their own agenda.



all candidates knew this in advance. Hillary recognized that she'd lost. you need to as well.



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btw, assuming your 'ideal" had been in place all along ... Bill Clinton would have lost the runoff election and, probably, so would have Jimmy Carter as, in the second round, conservative voters for the third party candidates in those elections would have backed the Republican candidate.



be very, very careful what you ask for -- liberals aren't the majority in America.

Answer 4

The electoral college was designed to protect the rights of slave states. It does that job to this day.

Answer 5

I don't want all future presidents and policy to be driven by a few areas of the country. I'm President so and so from New York. Vote for me and I'll do a bunch of stuff for New York.

Answer 6

Only 58% of illegible voters bothered to vote.

Answer 7

You lost. GET OVER IT!!

Answer 8

the majority vote counts at the state level, the electoral college works perfectly well, and faithless electors are so rare that they are meaningless