I wonder if this will get as much press as Tila Tequila ' s faggoty little alt right party . LOL . No , I don ' t . <| sep |> It also doesnt take 3 years to clear like every other jungler does <| sep |> The Electoral College . Okay , here we go . First , you have to understand the basics of our legislature . We have two houses of congress The House of Representatives has 435 seats , and those are allocated to each state based on their population 7 states get 1 representative , and it goes all the way up to California , which gets 53 . Then there ' s the Senate , where every state gets exactly 2 senators , regardless of population . So , the Electoral College takes those 435 seats in the House and the 100 in the Senate , plus 3 for DC the bare minimum , so they still get a vote even though they aren ' t in a state and don ' t have representation in congress to equal 538 electoral votes . So , when you ' re voting for President , you aren ' t actually voting for President , you ' re voting to tell electors who to vote for . Most states all but 2 are all or nothing . If a candidate wins 7030 or 5149 in California , they still win all 55 of those votes . The exceptions are Nebraska and Maine it ' s a little complicated , but those votes get divided up some . So , we vote for who we want our Electors to vote for in November , but they don ' t actually elect the President until December . And in a lot of states , they don ' t actually have to vote for the candidate who won the state . And even in the states where there is a law stating you do , the penalty for not doing so is normally just a fine .