Also , the Democratic primary ' s fairness doesn ' t reflect the reality of the electoral college . Looking at 2016 ' s political map , primaries held in places like Texas , California , and Louisiana should hold little delegate weight compared to one held in Ohio and Michigan . They do , look at the number of pledged delegates relative to the state populations . For example , Michigan and New Jersey had more delegates than North Carolina and Georgia , even though they have smaller populations . At least until we decide a president by popular vote it didn ' t help Hillary to have the most voters , she needed more voters in the right states . Except you can never really know for certain what states are supposed to count or not . What counts as a swing state or a mustwin state changes from time to time . This year the democratic party lost Georgia and Arizona by smaller margins than Ohio , and Texas by smaller margin than Iowa . Louisiana was blue in the 90 s and elected a democratic governor in 2015 . Plus of course , Hillary did win most of the swing states like the other poster said .