This is awesome ! So accurate . <| sep |> Picking presidents by popular vote turns it into a literal popularity contest . The idea of the people directly picking the president wasn ' t the original intent anyway . The states decide who is president . They are not required to allow their citizens to vote on presidential electors . People voting on electors didn ' t become a widespread practice until around the civil war . Every state picks their electors by popular vote today . So the majority of each state does win every time . Trump did win a majority of states and electoral vote , but not the popular vote , which again was never intended to pick the president . <| sep |> Nicht eher nasser Lappen ? <| sep |> Yeah , Quick Match is to blame .