I really don ' t like it at all . Over the last 10 years or so , the system has been systematically changed so that Democratic votes are worth less than Republican ones . The Electoral College is a good example of this , though it goes back more than 10 years . 16 years ago , Gore got more votes and lost . A few weeks ago , Clinton got more votes and lost . It ' s not a good situation , when more people vote for somebody else and get stuck with someone like Bush or Trump . The House has been gerrymandered to a shocking degree , to disenfranchise Democratic voters . That apparently wasn ' t enough , because Republicans have done what they can to suppress left wing votes through voter ID and curtailing early voting , etc . This is also true for most statelevel governments . The Senate was designed this way Democratic Senators always , always , always have more votes than Republican ones . The Senate was designed to make sure that smaller states weren ' t steamrolled by bigger ones . But the Republicans took the system and turned it into a undemocratic mess . I ' m not okay with that .