And what percentage of the total national population lives in those 57 counties ? It ' s easy to make it sound lopsided when you state it the way you did , but when you take into account that for example Loving County , Texas has 82 residents and Los Angeles County in California has 9 , 818 , 605 residents you can see that it ' s not as lopsided as you ' re making it out to be . When someone says we should go by the popular vote they ' re not trying to discredit counties . On the contrary , they ' re trying to guarantee that they get the precise amount of credit that they deserve based on how many people live there . Edit The issue with the electoral college system is that it clearly has the potential to over credit certain areas . Otherwise it would be impossible to lose the election while winning the popular vote . There ' s a reason why no other country uses the electoral system . It ' s antiquated and we ' re still using it because our two main political parties have evolved their campaign strategies around it and gotten so good at manipulating it that they don ' t want to change , because they can ' t perfectly predict or control the outcome of the results of changing it , and God forbid they risk losing an election for the good of the country and our electoral process . They think the sky will fall if they aren ' t in power . Anyway , it ' s time for us to step into the 21 st century here and get real , and the results of this election are the icing on that cake .