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The POTUS and VP are elected via indirect vote, why? Because the President represents the Federal government and not the people. The voting for President must reflect the desire of the Union (States), this is why we have an Electoral college. Now with that in mind look at this link and tell me what the desire of the Union was: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...s-of-2016.html
If you choose to do away with the electoral college, then you will have the areas on Hillary's map representing the whole of the Union.
Doesn't matter anyway, it's meaningless. The election is over and Trump won. What it does do, is to confirm the wisdom of the Framers in creating the system we have, because otherwise you would have CA, NY, and a couple of other populous states determining the election, while everyone else's vote would count for nothing.
We are 50 sovereign states, and each state votes as an individual state. The country does not vote as a block. Trump won more states. That's all that counts.
It really doesn't matter, California has 55 electoral votes and they are all going to be for Clinton. However, if the electoral vote was chosen by congressional district then Clinton would lose a few electoral votes.
Only until the next census and reapportionment. At which point the process would be used to lock out a party completely rather than gerrymander districts for each ethnic group to have their "own" man or woman.
The most unintentionally funniest thing I've read on here since the election took place is that "California doesn't count". And it was actually more than one person who said that.
Oh sure, let's disregard the most populous state in the country just because it's "librul" California.
Oh California does count, all 55 of Cal's electoral votes went to hilLIARy. But she did not reach 270, she lost, get over it.
I kept telling libs that the Hispanic votes in CA wouldn't make any difference. They could have voted 10,000,000 more for Hillary and it wouldn't get them even one more Electoral vote. I don't know, maybe they finally understand this. Probably not.
The most unintentionally funniest thing I've read on here since the election took place is that "California doesn't count". And it was actually more than one person who said that.
Oh sure, let's disregard the most populous state in the country just because it's "librul" California.
Nobody saying that California shouldn't matter. It awards the most electoral votes out of any state by a significant margin. It shouldn't be the only state that matters though.
Wonderful news! Maybe California can declare the Cintons president of the state. They're out of work right now and you deserve each other.
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And it was actually more than one person who said that. 
