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Originally Posted by vienna
Trump was never the US voters' choice.
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I would disagree.
The intent of the electoral college is for the winning candidate to get the majority of the votes in the majority of the states. This is different than a simple majority of the population. It is more a representative majority over the set of states.
Yes, Clinton got more of the population's votes, but they were concentrated in a fewer number of states. The methodology of how we elect our president is, as always, a compromise between the desires of the largest population states (who would would favour a simple majority) and the smaller population states (who would favour a more representative majority).
This is, of course, compounded by the states deciding (and it is the individual state's decision) to have an "all or nothing" electoral vote tally. We don't need to get rid of the electoral college, we need to fix it so it records a more representative tally of the votes.
So Trump winning the majority of the votes in the majority of the states would indicate that he was the choice of the voters as represented by the individual states.