The New York Daily News bestows an honorarium on Donald Trump ( Archived) (22)

ooby_dooby: I'll help the old man out because he's obviously too tired to expend the energy required to answer your question jac. In the US we have an antiquated system called the "Electoral College" which was set up over 100 years ago before there was even a telephone, to enable the rural people to cast a ballot. This was accomplished by electing strawmen to vote for them based on the number of people in each state, ie a big state with lots of population like CA, NY FL have more votes than places like ND, NH, WY. This system is incredibly outdated and can and does result in upside down elections where the "winner" actually gets fewer actual votes from the citizens than the "loser". This is what happened in the case of Trump vs Clinton and has happened in the past as well where a Democrat has triumphed over a Republican, a fact that Mr Conrad never fails to mention BTW.
There is a movement afoot to overturn the Electoral College which is gaining support day by day and one day it will be no more. This is the 21st century fercrisakes, we have Facebook and the internet to help us vote.