You look like a gay Conan O ' Brien <| sep |> Source for the million a day figure ? <| sep |> 1824 was a completely different situation . No candidate received enough electoral votes in that election to win the presidency so the decision went to the House . Should they have chosen Jackson over Adams just because he got the most votes in the popular vote ? Maybe it seems that way to you , but you ' re missing that 58 . 6 % of the country voted for someone else in that election . During the House decision , Henry Clay , the guy who came in third in the popular vote and 4 th in the EC gave his support to Adams , and by that measure Adams was the correct choice for president since he had more support overall than Jackson did . Absent instant runoff voting to determine who actually had a majority not plurality of support , the results of the 1824 election were fine and Adams deserved to win . Don ' t get me wrong , I strongly support Electoral College reform and think that the current system is wholly unrepresentative of the true will of the people . I think every state should implement ranked choice voting and that Electoral votes should be awarded proportionally instead of winner take all . I just think your point about the 1824 election is frankly irrelevant with regard to current events .