CHARTS: Is The Electoral College Dragging Down Voter Turnout In Your State?

While Clinton, indeed, won the majority of the most-populated states, including NY and California, most of that map is Republican red, reflecting the states Trump won.

And although Clinton won the popular vote by at least 2 million votes, Trump decisively won the electoral vote with victories in several large swing states.

It’s been more than two weeks since the 2016 presidential election, but the final results from MI are in: Donald Trump won by 10,704 votes.

At least six electors have already vowed to cast ballots that don’t align with the popular vote results of their states on December 19.

In 2012, even though Barack Obama won nearly 5 million more popular votes than Mitt Romney, Trump tweeted, “The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy”.

“We actually went to about 22 states, whereas if you’re going for popular vote, you’d probably go to four, or three, it could be three”, Trump told The New York Times on Tuesday.

The U.S. presidential race is decided by the Electoral College, based on a tally of wins from the state-by-state contests, rather than by the national vote.

Democrats mostly dismissed the idea throughout the general election, although in the final days of the campaign Clinton rushed to Grand Rapids and Detroit, and dispatched President Obama to Ann Arbor in a futile effort to stave off the upset.

The Electoral College, which sees each state allocated a certain amount of votes dependent on the size of its population, has been criticised by some voters who do not feel they are given adequate representation. Based on this statistical analysis, Clinton may have been denied as many as 30,000 votes; she lost Wisconsin by 27,000. Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, made two stops in rural Southeast Ohio, while former president Bill Clinton appeared at Ohio University and Hillary Clinton made a non-primary stop there.

The growing margin far surpasses Al Gore’s lead over President George W. Bush in 2000, which was about 540,000 votes.

We all remember what happened on Election day.

Opponents of the Electoral College claim such outcomes do not represent how a democratic system should function. MI went to the Democratic candidate five times out of the last five presidential elections, according to election tracking website 270 to win.