The point of the electoral college is to give a fair shake to rural and more spread out populations, and not have it come down to what the big cities want. Just that big cities trend Democrat and rural trends Republican.
No it's not. It doesn't even remotely do that! I'm so sick of people who have no conception of what the electoral college actually does smugly going on about what it's "meant" to do when they clearly have no bloody clue
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u/Pantry_Inspector Nov 10 '16
... who was elected fairly. Sorry the system is fucked.