“We are a very different country than we were 200 years ago.” These are not the words of a politician or media pundit after waking up Wednesday to news that the billionaire businessman Donald Trump, who has never worked in government or served in the U.S. military, will become the 45th president of the United States.

They are the words of Hillary Rodham Clinton on a victory tour after winning her first election, to represent New York in the U.S. Senate. As Americans anxiously waited to find out who would win Florida’s 25 electoral votes and become the 43rd president, Clinton was speaking in Albany about the Electoral College system.

“I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president,” Clinton said at an airport news conference in 2000.

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What kinda foreshadowing

even trump agreed in 2012

No.

Yeah, basically anyone with a brain agrees

I really do not understand United States’s elections, but the popular vote should always be the most important.

Winning the popular vote but not the presidency because of how the electoral system works must be devastating.

Terrible irony.

I mean it would be the most logical thing to do

Of course the democrats would defend the 'will of the people'. It would allow for the liberal cities and states to decide every election. You're dreaming if you think other states would agree.

A winning the Eurovision televote but finishing 3rd overall tea. Italy can relate. Honestly, I don't get the American system. It's so...pointless

omg the foreshadowing
of course she's right, though

if those cities and states have more people, why shouldn't they be weighed less?

No lies spotted

It's the logical thing to do. That EC system is so pointless.

If the majority of people are democrats, shouldn't the majority of elected officials be?

A damn mess.

They aren't weighted less. They have more EVs. Just enough so that other states still matter.

If there are more liberal people in America, then you bet your ass they should get a liberal president.