PSA please try not to attend any Thanksgiving sales that take place today . Thousands of retail workers don ' t get to have dinner with their families and the only way for that to stop is for corporations to see that people won ' t come out and shop on Thanksgiving Day <| sep |> The issues is that electors are voted for as a bloc instead of individually . My state has 7 EC votes . Clinton got 51 % of our vote and Trump 41 %. The other 8 % were split between the third parties . I think a fair , democratic EC would split the electors proportionally amongst candidates that reach a certain % of the vote , with any extras so the portion for the candidates that split the 8 % in this scenario going to the winner of either the state or national popular vote . This would have given my state a 43 or 52 split instead of 7 for Clinton . Or each House district could get 1 EC vote and the winner of the state wide popular vote gets the two that represent the Senate seats .