Es como Abrevian Ni Nos Vimos <| sep |> Yes but all those votes are from people who would vote democrat even if their candidate was actually a turd sandwich . Trump won over the voters who weren ' t a sure thing . Hillary alienated a very large portion of them . The Democratic voter base is largely urban so winning the popular vote is easy for them . When all the biggest cities and most populous states are a sure thing for you and have been for decades of course you can win the popular vote . Think about it , even if only 10 % of the population of California votes and all of those votes go to Hillary that ' s still 3 . 8 million votes which is basically the entire population of a state like Oklahoma voting for her . If we were to switch to a pure popular vote the power the Democratic party has by controlling most of America ' s large cities and states basically ensures that the Republicans would never win another presidency . Now that isn ' t to say that forcing the parties to reevaluate their platforms to appeal to new voter bases in a new system would be a bad thing , but honestly how many people vote for a party just because their parents do ? It would be very difficult to get traditionally blue states to go red and vice versa . If anything we should keep the electoral college but the electoral votes in each state get divided based on the popular vote in said state . that way Republican voters in traditionally blue states have incentive to vote and Democrats in red states have a reason as well without erasing the smaller states from mattering at all .