Comment by dx87

It's called the "United States" for a reason. The country was designed to be a union of semi-autonomous states, not a single entity. The president is still elected democratically, but the state's votes are what matter, not individuals. If we went by the popular vote, it would be a minority of states imposing their will on the majority of the remaining states. You could argue that that's preferable, but acting like Republicans are using "this one weird trick" to get electoral votes is ignoring why the country was set up the way it is.