Whenever idiots start talking about "blah blah blah won the popular vote, blah blah blah get rid of the electoral college" show them this.
Half of the US population are in big cities (those blue spots) and the other half are spread out throughout the US. This is why the electoral college is necessary, so people in big cities don't dictate the rest of the country. Popular vote only matters per state, who ever wins more votes in that state gets the electoral points. Popular vote nation wide doesn't matter.
Whenever idiots start talking about "blah blah blah won the popular vote, blah blah blah get rid of the electoral college" show them this.
Half of the US population are in big cities (those blue spots) and the other half are spread out throughout the US. This is why the electoral college is necessary, so people in big cities don't dictate the rest of the country. Popular vote only matters per state, who ever wins more votes in that state gets the electoral points. Popular vote nation wide doesn't matter.
Via vote rigging they've managed to do away with both.