Honestly I ' m tired of seeing this argument . Every time I do hear it , it ' s from someone assured of their own intelligence and convinced that everyone around them has no understanding of how the electoral college works . What ends up happening is an argument about as pleasant as nails being driven into your fingers , where one person tries endlessly to explain the system to someone who already understands it , and the other tries unsuccessfully to elucidate that they do in fact know how the system works , and find it unfair . <| sep |>. but only sometimes . <| sep |> I do this sometimes on the bus when it ' s clear that it ' s going to fill up as people walk in . That way people traveling in pairs who happen to be closer to the end of the line have a chance of sitting together .