...needs to be changed? That very same system allowed Barack Obama to be president and get re-elected. Had Clinton won, will they be saying the same thing?

Is there any other country that uses that pointless method? Like, logic suggests that if you get more votes you win

Barack Obama won the popular vote in both of his elections. Clinton won the popular vote but lost because of the Electoral College, which favors conservative candidates because its greater representation of rural states.

Obama won the popular vote but yeah it's situational outrage

Obama also won the popular vote both times he ran.....

The electoral college is outdated and unnecessary. Republicans oppose it to. Exhibit A: DONALD TRUMP

Because it is? Obama won the popular vote in both elections so he still would've won.

The Electoral College was put in place to prevent candidates like Trump winning and it just failed so... it's time to get rid of it.

Obama won the popular vote both times though. 2008 by like 10m, 2012 by 3m, so remove the EVs both years, and he'd still have won, he didn't need it.

Hypocrisy.

Some people just have to have things their own way.

Just like how a fair number of them do not support generalization yet generalize white men.

Explain how it's hypocrisy when the only candidates who have one the election without winning the popular vote have been Republicans???

Because its ****

Even Donald himself tweeted about how bad it is back in 2012. Obviously he doesn't mind it now since he won because of it!

+ Gore.

Based on the popular vote, we would have had:
- Bill Clinton 1992 (DEM)
- Bill Clinton 1996 (DEM)
- Al Gore 2000 (DEM)
- George Bush 2004* (REP)
- Barack Obama 2008 (DEM)
- Barack Obama 2012 (DEM)
- Hillary Clinton 2016 (DEM)

Do you understand how WILDLY different America, foreign relations, and THE WORLD would be right now?

* On Bush, since he wouldn't have been running for reelection, and without a war many believe he wouldn't have won.

People thought the Electoral College favored Hillary before Election Day. Every projection map had her with a good advantage.

Democrats are so unbelievably stupid. Besides not fighting to make voting easier for young people and minorities (national holiday at the very least, which Sanders has proposed) and making registration an automatic thing upon obtaining a driver's license just like being registered for the selective service, I still believe we should be fighting to make voting possible online. There are secure ways to do it, just like with registering to vote online (done here in NY), or handling sensitive school/financial aid documents. Besides that, the fact that we could have had 20 of the last 24 years under a democratic president, should be a sign that maybe we should do away with the electoral college. Democrats are lazy and spineless, however, and will keep fighting republicans on their terms.

1. Obama won the popular vote both times
2. I've been complaining about it for years
3. I was complaining about it literally an hour before polls closed. This isn't situational. It's a terrible system and an enemy to democracy.

White?

Now I understand.

They've been saying this for years wtf when are we fixing this ****?

Also false. Hillary had a MUCH larger probability of winning the popular vote but losing the EC than Trump