If Trump had of won the entire west coast of the United States and Clinton had of won the midwest instead of Trump then she would've been the POTUS.
Is that fair? 
While doing research on my lack of knowledge I found this article:
http://www.startribune.com/the-elect...ote/401967335/
Quote:
First, the Electoral College tends to produce decisive outcomes. A pure popular vote contest might often lead to a disputed result.
Take this year. At last count, Clinton had surpassed a million-vote margin over Trump. It’s important to remember that the campaigns would implement different strategies in a popular vote contest — so these results simply don’t prove that Clinton would have won such a race. And while her lead is considerable, it’s still only about 1 percent of all votes cast — narrow enough to produce uncertainty if popular votes directly determined the winner and set armies of lawyers into motion.
In the unusual election of 2000, when the presidential race was decided by the paper-thin popular vote margin of a single state, we saw what agonies a mere statewide recount battle can produce. Imagine it on a national scale.
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a relatively stable level, period,
or condition a level of attainment
or achievement
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